The media's role in eating disorders became of interest to me when I saw the use of Pro-Ana websites and thinspiration boards become one of the most popular trends in my all-girls high school. Rates of eating disorders were through the roof in my class, far more than I experienced in my co-ed education, indicating to me that going to an all-girls school may have a correlation with the higher rates. The use of media to drive the culture of eating disorders in my high school was everywhere. In advisory groups, girls posted pictures on the wall of skinny models to remind them of what they sought to obtain. Girls would skip lunch in groups, driven by the motto "nothing tastes as good as skinny feels". It become a fad, the thing to do in high school. In my experience at a co-ed school, the talk was about boys, gossip; in an all-girls school, it was about being skinny or fat. One specific example I remember that really struck me was the use of the "skinny group text". This group text consisted of girls who were driven to lose weight in unhealthy ways and inspired by thinspiration. These girls formed a group text that would send photos of thin girls to drive their unhealthy eating until they reached their goal weight. Disturbed by this culture, I wondered how the media influenced the birth of these unrealistic ideals of perfect. I watched the girls in my school use media to drive the culture and inspire their eating habits. My personal interest in the issue drove me to further explore the different ways that media affects the prevalence of eating disorders in girls and search for ways to prevent the spread of these ideals. If we used the Internet to spread these ideals in the first place, can we use it to counter them with healthy messages?