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Living in A Perfect World It is difficult as a teenage girl to see the long-legged models on the television and in magazine that show what women are “supposed” to look like. I remember staring down at my own body, and just wishing that in the morning I would wake up and see Cindy Crawford’s twin in the mirror. Even though that never happened, I grew to love my body and respect that I, along with all my imperfections and flaws, am a beautiful and intelligent human being. The image of the woman I wanted to look like came from a blend of television commercials and magazine ads I had seen. Much of what people accept to be an actual representation of women comes from the gives the public impossible standards to live up to. media they subject themselves to. The treatment of females as sex objects in the media These standards that women are expected to live up to cause them to go to great lengths to achieve their desired look. Women alone are responsible for 80% of individual spending in the United States. (Cohan 324) Much of what they spend their time and money on is looking more like the models in the media. Women see other females on television or in magazines and sometimes are persuaded to think they would be more desir