In the article, “Television Viewers’ Ideal Body Proportions: The Case of the Curvaceously Thin Woman,” Kristen Harrison discussed how media praises the unrealistic and unattainable standards placed on female body image along with how important it is to understand what motivate women to try to achieve these idealized images. Thus, Harrison conducted a study to determine many different hypotheses, however the most relevant being whether or not the “exposure to ideal-body television images will be positively associated with women's and men's idealization of a slimmer female waist and hips, but not a smaller bust.” For the experiment, women were shown nine images of various body figures that is portrayed on television shows and movies. After, they
