Please read this report by The University of Washington
http://depts.washington.edu/thmedia/view.cgi?section=bodyimage&page=fastfacts

• In a survey of girls 9 and 10 years old, 40% have tried to lose weight, according to an ongoing study funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.

• A 1996 study found that the amount of time an adolescent watches soaps, movies and music videos is associated with their degree of body dissatisfaction and desire to be thin.(here I would love to add not only thin but also fairer)

• One study reports that at age thirteen, 53% of American girls are "unhappy with their bodies." This grows to 78% by the time girls reach seventeen.

In a book "I’m, Like, SO Fat!" Written by Dianne Neumark Sztainer reports that 50% of teen girls and 30% of teen boys practice unhealthy behaviors in an effort to get "perfect body shape"Body image is a huge factor in young people’s self-esteem, especially that of young women.

From the moment we’re born, we’re surrounded by unrealistic images of what women should look like, what the “ideal” body type is. Women’s bodies are constantly objectified in the media, making it seem as though their bodies exist for others to look at, touch, use, etc.

When puberty comes around and our bodies start to change, they don’t change into what we see on magazine covers or in music videos.

https://twitter.com/AnAnonGirl_/status/1279108567128248321?s=19

I am sorry smh the thread got divided into two parts