Teenage girls are going through an impressionable time in their lives. Mass media is a key idea in one of the socialization factors that become important for adolescents. Teens look to media for a sense of entertainment. Whether it's movies, magazines, or even some aspects of social media, teenagers receive a lot of influence from the media's message. The problem is that the media has a specific way of doing things and can be negative for a susceptible teenager. The way the media portrays a woman can be distorted and unrealistic compared to reality. Teenage girls therefore have a desire for this look or manner. In this essay I will describe the three ways I will describe why the media can negatively affect a teenage girl's body image by showing unrealistic bodies and women, women whose bodies are desirable to a large number of people, and finally, not allowing all body types to be equally shown as “attractive”. The pattern is similar for the representation of women in television, magazines and other areas of the media. The way the media portrays women is that they are skinny models and that other women on television are a high standard of “attractiveness” to others. The advertising involved targets young adolescent women and presents these models as representing desirable objects, and the “norm” is for these women to be slim and beautiful (Vonderen & Kinnally, 2012). Research has been conducted to show that media pressure to be thin causes women to have depressive and negative feelings about themselves. Women's vision is distorted and incorrectly perceived compared to what the typical female body should be (Haas, Pawlow, Pettibone & Segrist, 2012). Women's body image has always been emphasized to make them look a certain way and try to achieve "physical perfection". .....middle of paper......deva, 2012). These results show a small part of the effects of media on women's mentality. You may perceive yourself as something you are not, because of the things you are exposed to. Mass media plays an important role in shaping the body image of a teenage boy and girl. Pushing an ideal body type that is unusual and false in life, girls strive and struggle to achieve this image. When the media shows only one body type as desirable, they are alienating every girl who doesn't fit into that category. Imposing these ideal bodies on teenage girls at an important time in their life development can be harmful to their bodies and their self-esteem. By showing what a girl should look like, mass media is damaging girls' body image and, unless awareness is raised, could become increasingly unfavorable to young women today and tomorrow..