The media is an essential and persuasive force of socialization. As stated in the article titled Gender Issues in The Media, "Young children are particularly vulnerable to media teachings because they lack the critical ability to distinguish between fantasy and reality, to identify persuasive intention or to understand irony and reality. ignore stereotypes. Media contributes to the development of children's abilities because most of their knowledge and experience comes from media. In the media, images of women and girls are shown performing domestic chores, sexual objects and victims of beatings. The girls are also presented as beautiful, skinny, rich, happy and confident in their skin. We are constantly pressured through television, advertisements and magazines about how we should look, act and dress. I was once one of those girls who was pressured into thinking that I was supposed to look like a model, thin and beautiful, and that makeup was the key to being beautiful. I suffered from anorexia nervosa for a few months until my parents gave me the help I needed. There were days when I didn't want to eat so I wouldn't have to gain weight. According to Brittney Valderrama (2015), "images in today's media project an unrealistic, even dangerous, standard of female beauty that can have a powerful influence on how women perceive themselves." Being attractive and thin is expected of women, but the media fails to notice the negative effects this causes us. We constantly look around us to see if we measure up to those around us.