Elusive Perfection

This article about the body image issues of teenage girls is interesting. I've been thinking a lot lately about how to help reverse this trend, and haven't come up with any solutions. Except that when I write my brilliant first novel (heh) it will have this theme!

I thought it was noteworthy that the "ideal" role models (J. Lo, Beyonce and Britney) are all "curvy and they've all spoken publicly about their physical flaws." But as a 15-year-old herself points out, "people say they're curvy but it's still a shape girls feel they have to look like. And that's not good."