Models are getting thinner, while the average American woman is getting curvier, and yet malnourished models with waists that could wrap a child's arms around are the best examples of true beauty - according to today's society through the media. The media, with its tiny models, slender celebrities, and the idea that skinny is sexy, practically, but sometimes unintentionally, creates eating disorders in the lives of insecure young girls who cannot fully understand what they do to themselves. Social media, along with the fashion and film industries, are just a few outlets that inadvertently encourage eating disorders. Slamming their six-inch heels on the catwalk, always having their photos taken and seeming to live an elitist and glamorous lifestyle, these are the supermodels of fashion. industry. When very thin women are chosen to showcase high fashion designs on runways and in magazines, teenagers receive the message that this is the ideal body type they should strive to achieve. This is an unrealistic goal because models weigh 20% less than the average woman, and because young women are tuned into a celebrity culture full of thin women, most girls start to believe that they are fat from a very young age. (Dying To Be Thin, McPhee) The constant repetition of patterns we see every day changes our opinion of what is beautiful. Ruth Striegel, professor of psychology at Westleyan University, says: "Repeated exposure to a particular image teaches you to like that particular image... We are so used to seeing extremely thin women that it tricks us into thinking it's that’s beauty. » (Dying To Be Thin, McPhee) Clearly, repeated exposure to these thin images increased...... middle of paper...... lost weight the fastest. (Stamford, 30) “It can turn into a competition,” says Francesca Carrington Birch, 22. (Laurance, 1) These graphic websites are causing eating disorders in some young women because they pretend it's not serious and it's not even as harmful as getting a tattoo . Young girls who are exposed can't even understand how wrong it is because it's all over the internet. The fashion, television, film and social media industries are ruining young women's self-image, and since self-image is linked to body weight, they have a direct influence on eating disorders. These industries need to wake up to what they have done and start offering size diversity to models and actors, and stop posting "pro-eating disorder" websites on the Internet before their lives even more young women are destroyed before they have even practically started..