Throughout history the ideal of beauty has been difficult to achieve as it has been shaped by social contexts. From an early age people have been surrounded by images and advertisements that reinforce the fact that thin is beautiful and that to be happy and successful you have to be thin. Women are constantly given the message that they are not pretty enough or thin enough. It's nearly impossible to open a magazine, shop at the mall, or turn on the TV without being confronted with the message that to be fat is to be undesirable and unattractive. This has left us with a society full of girls with eating disorders, low self-confidence and depression. "Miss Representation" is a documentary directed and produced by Jennifer Siebel. She discusses how advertising through networks like Disney, CBS, Time Warner, and NewsCorp has a major influence in making women want to be something they are not. (Siebel Jennifer) The paper exposes the pressure many girls feel to be beautiful and how these pressures have a negative impact on them and in many cases have even led to eating disorders. Al...