Pressure to Be Thin

"Female Body Image in the Media - The Pressure to Be Thin in Society" was written by Lin on 12 November, 2009 and was published on Telling It Like It Is. In this article, Lin discussed the increasing concern about the media's pressure on society to be thin and how many people are developing eating disorders to try an achieve this image the media provides. Lin gives statistics from a teen magazine called Sugar that should give most people a shocking wake up call and then lists some famous celebrities from the past to show that media's former ideal body image was a hourglass and curvy figure.

I chose this website because it gives excellent statistics that I will be able to use all throughout my paper. It also gives a good history about media's ideal body image and how it has changed over time. Which would be good to consider adding to the scope in my paper.