From newspapers, magazines, television, movies, and the Internet, people are connected to media in so many ways every day. The media has a huge impact on everyday life, telling the public what the latest trends are, events happening in everyday life, and scandalous stories of elite individuals involving politics, fame, and money. From young children to middle-aged adults, people are constantly fixated on the images the media portrays of what they should look like. “Body image is defined as “perceptions and attitudes toward one's physical appearance” (Burlew & Shurts, 2013, p. 1). The media has an impact on how society and individuals see themselves and others. The media has a crucial influence on teenagers. Golan, Hagay, and Tamir (2013) stated that “Because puberty, by its very nature, is associated with weight gain, adolescents often experience dissatisfaction with their changing bodies” (p. 1). Boys grow up with the expectation that they must become a strong, muscular, masculine man. Young girls see thin models and movie stars and grow up thinking that it is only socially acceptable and attractive if they are also thin or very thin. “In a culture that glorifies thinness, some adolescents, especially girls, become excessively concerned with their physical appearance and begin to diet obsessively in an attempt to achieve or maintain a thin body (Golan, Hagay & Tamir, 2013, 1). Little girls play with dolls that have narrow waists, full busts, lots of makeup and hair combed in a certain way. Advertisers and manufacturers portray a particular body image with dolls, and this pushes girls to form opinions about how they should look. “Girls can engage in conversations… middle of paper… and increase the number of average-sized models. Another suggestion is that the public be more informed about the means necessary to alter images in advertisements, endorsements and commercials to make it clear that human beings do not normally appear as they do in these public displays. If women were less exposed to super-thin models, they would feel the need to modify their bodies less and would have a more positive perception of themselves. Society is exposed to media every day and body image is included in this. Conceptions of body image vary from adolescents to adults, from men to women, and from different same-sex age groups. The media sometimes spread unreliable and impractical images that have no positive effect on the public. Advertisers, parents, producers have a responsibility to provide positive information and representation to help the public.