6.3 Body Image

What is body image? The term body image refers to the view that a person has of his or her own body size and proportion. Body-image distortion occurs when a person's view of their body is significantly different from reality.
Mass Media is the biggest impact that we have on body image – the perfect body image in the US today is to be stick thin for women with a pair of unrealistically sized boobs for this body to carry around. Hollywood plays a huge role on body image in the USA, by demanding that their leading ladies be nothing but skin and bones.