In today’s society everyone is always judging themselves due to the belief that we live in a world where everyone feels like having a “perfect” body is the only way to live.  Many people worry about what other people may think and that everyone has to conform to a society’s “ideal” body image. 

In reality, what is that ideal body image, when each person is born from the combination of two different people and no one looks alike in the first place?  When born we are not given some kind of curriculum of what each person needs to look like. 

Passing a mirror in the hall, all everyone sees is everything wrong with themselves, even if in reality, nothing is wrong with how one looks.  There might be that extra fat on the legs; a stomach not small enough; arms not good enough, as well as seeing that extra fat on their face.  Thinking that what they see will never be accepted and it needs correction as soon as possible.  No one sees how everyone is perfect the way each individual is, but many things are in the fault for it. 

Where does everyone get this ideal look from, what is everyone looking at to figure out what one should look like?  Everyone gets this ideal image from the media, celebrities, and models.  “TV, movies, and magazines are but three examples of media that flood girls and women with messages about the “advantages” of being thin” (Fadia 14). 

Everybody wants to have that perfect body.  For some people having that body is no big deal, but for others it is dealing with inside issues and just trying to be accepted into society.  In our fast paced world everything has to happen quickly including weight loss; there is not time to do anything slow.  Some people then take the dangerous step in order to have a perfect body.  They revert to eating disorders to be like those people “everyone looks up to”, manly those celebrities and models.