ens and young adult women watch nightly. These idealistic girls and their idealized carefree lives that women see on television can lower what might be their low self-esteem. They think, if I looked like her, all my problems would be gone. The same is true for models. Many young girls believe that they will be considered perfect if they make it in the modeling business. One such twelve-year old seems to think that this is true:My name is Candra Kay Johnson. I am 12 yrs. old. I have a friend that is beginning modeling. She has told me a lot and she said that I would be a great model!! I always look in the magazines and think it would be cool to start out by doing that.(http://discserver.snap.com/discussion.cgi?id=65378&article=1088) This is not necessarily true: thin women also have problems. They have pressure on themselves to remain thin. Once this pressure becomes too high for them to bear, the young girl becomes obsessed with her weight and begins to exercise vigorously in addition to her dieting. Many anorexic cases have come to exist because the young girl feels that she has no control over her life, except for her weight, which she tries to control through starvation.The only way to cure this long-standing epidemic is to control the media. Impossible as it may seem, it can be done. After years of disrupting Weight Watchers meetings with pro-fat guerrilla theater, Lynn McAfee now directs the medical project of the Council on Size and Weight Discrimination in Philadelphia (Goldberg 2). Another way is to control the way the media portrays larger persons. In the Calvin Klein ad, the black-clad girl represents a devil-like figure; associating weight with sinfulness (Goldberg 3). This mocking of fat people needs to be transformed into beauty so that the steadfast media can see that larger persons are worthy of beauty as well. They just present themselves in a different manner than thin people do. Although thin people ...
