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The American definition of beauty is visible in any one of our forms of popular culture, whether it's TV, movies, music videos, magazines, and advertisements, even billboards. "Women's bodies sell products that have nothing to do with women, like tires, cars, liquor, and guns" (Pipher, Reviving Ophelia 42). As if using women's bodies to sell completely unrelated products weren't harmful enough, the women used to sell these products are a far cry from what most women in America look like. The average American woman is 5'4" and weighs 140 pounds, whereas the average professional model in this country is 5'9'' and weighs roughly 110 pounds (Barnhill 49). Consistently, women are diminished by advertisers to pretty body parts used to sell products, a practice that perpetuates the glorification of this unreasonable ideal of beauty. Women's bodies have not only become a huge money-maker for advertisers, businesses have picked up on...

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