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Nicole Gendelman December 14, 2003 Disordered Open up a popular magazine. Watch a major motion picture. Flip to your favorite TV show. Undoubtedly you will be bombarded with depictions of "perfect" human bodies. Models whose thighs have diameters equal to that of their wrists, actors with abdomens that one could literally do laundry on, and celebrities whose exposed, impossibly flat midriffs only add to the magnificence of their designer gowns. In recent years, media such as this has come under scrutiny as being at the root of the epidemic of the eating disorder. Adolescent girls and sometimes boys, and although less common, adults, see these images as beautiful and turn to desperate and unhealthy measures of dieting in effort to replicate them, they say. It is true that the icons of our media present us with extremely high standards of beauty and very rarely represent what the average American truly looks like...

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