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Men are beginning to victimize themselves with body-image anxiety. We don't like how we look, and we get embarrassed and anxious when attention is called to our physiques.


IN THE NEWS
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2008
Research analysis reinforces media influence on women’s body image

2007
Schools urged to expose how media alter women's bodies
Media Literacy As An Educational Method for Addressing
College Women's Body Image Issues, Aug 2007

Models Create Body Dissatisfaction
Women Of All Sizes Feel Badly About Their Bodies After Seeing Models
Media might fuel eating disorders


2006 & prior
Dying To Be Thin
Thin Ads + Low Body Image = Stress?
Extreme Measures (People Magazine Cover Story 10/06)
Do thin models warp girls' body image?
Study: Thin models sell clothes better
While some strive for Hollywood's rail-thinness, others are comfortable in their curves
Feminine ideal portrayed in one size only -- very thin
Shrinking Stars Influence Younger Generation
Impossibly thin? 
Kate Hudson Sues Magazines Over Photos/Articles
Body image is focus of high school course
Skinny Like You: Visual Literacy, Digital Manipulation and Young Women's Drive to be Thin
Dove campaign commentary
Research backs 'normal size' models in ads
Fashion magazines showing more body types
Teen body image, the media, and supplements: an unhealthy mix (Aug.2005)
Barbie's figure gives young girls desire to be thinner
Pop culture setting unrealistic standards for young women?
Media need to shape up when portraying girlhood (May 2005)
Teen magazines blamed for rise in girls’ suicide (UK, April 2005)
The skinny on too thin teens (Mar.2005)
Pretty unreal: real teens look good; but celebrities look perfect (Jan.2005)
Anorexia possibly fueled by media
Too Fat?, Too Thin?: How Media Image of Celebrities Teach Kids
To Hate their bodies
(People magazine, June 3, 1996)