Body Dissatisfaction

In this academic article by Natalie King, Stephen Touyz, and Margaret Charles, they examine how women's perception on female celebrities affect how they feel about their body. Taking in consideration that I am not going in depth with their process of analysis and how they concluded to their reasoning, they state that the media's portrayal on the ideal body figure for a women is connected to the increase in commonness of "body image disturbance". Their research has shown that the media's ideal body figure has only affected certain women and that the ones who are not satisfied with their body feel that way because they are provoked and affected mostly by the images the media presents, however what is unknown is the reasoning behind why it affects them. It has also shown that because women view these "thin" models and celebrities, they overestimate their own weight which leads to their exaggeration.
This all leads back to the influence celebrities and women in the media in general have on how one might feel about their body and just about themselves. The media should not continue to present thin women as a usual thing because women begin to think that if an everyday women looks like that then so should they. There are different body types and women are never content with how they look and one of the huge contributors to that is women in the every day media. King, Touyz, and Charles's argument is persuasive because they provided research information, which can be found in this link: Research Information. They admit to the fact that the media is not entirely to blame for because it affects women differently, however this is a result of a similar amount of media exposure. Will the media ever come down to the understanding that different body types need to be equally presented?