Every morning, a girl looks in the mirror and sees a warped vision of herself staring back. Driven by the will to reach "perfect," she starves herself every day to try to look like the girls she pins on her thinspiration board, the model she sees on the cover of her favorite magazine, and the images plastered across the Pro-Ana websites she follows. She strives for the ideal that has surrounded her since she was young. The media continues to feed her images of what beauty looks like, presents hundreds of diet plans to get the "perfect body," and hosts webpages for disordered eating inspiration. How can a girl growing up in a world so saturated by these media messages develop confidence in her body? This is the core issue that underlies the onset of so many eating disorders in young girls. The media's role in the prevalence of eating disorders in young girls is something that I find to be incredibly underestimated. Because the media is such an important tool in the dissemination of culture, it is not surprising that media representations of women greatly affect the population of women and girls who are exposed to it. It is this relationship that I argue influences unhealthy habits in women and girls, driving them to change their healthy routines in the pursuit of the media's idealized body.