ven situation, further ingraining the
             importance of physical appearance in the minds of adolescent girls. The
             media broadcasts the "thin ideal" in almost every way possible. Not only
             are models on the covers of magazines and in advertisements embodying the
             "thin-ideal," but fictional characters in T.V. shows and movies are almost
             always structured in the same way. For example in the movie Shrek, the
             "ugly" princess was portrayed as being overweight, green and possessing
             masculine qualities, where as the "beautiful" princess was thin, extremely
             beautiful and had more feminine characteristics. This example alone allows
             young children to acquire enough knowledge to build a fat stigma against
             the ugly and fat, and live by the artificial standards of the media
             ...