Talking to a co-worker about the messages today's youth receive from the
media. Her daughter is 13 going on 16 and is slightly chubby. The daughter
gets a lot of grief from her peers about not being thin, not looking the
part, not dressing the way they do, etc. My friend said it's hard trying to
reach her daughter and make her understand that being unique is a gift and
that, while the other girls may be thin - they're also ugly. Her daughter
can always lose weight, but their correction will require surgery!

Which is right in line with the models in this poster. At least one of them has an eating disorder. Another has had some type of plastic surgery. Another has had lipo or botex injections. These are the examples our teens see everyday and these gals are the ones setting the standard for my co-worker's daughter. She is striving to emulate these women, who are not naturally beautiful the way their images are depicted. We need to stress to our girls that these models are chiseled and made to look this well.