In Newman’s words, mass media “tell us the type of person we ‘should’ be” (Newman, 2010, 154). The media broadcasts ideal images of bodily perfection and physical beauty that appeal to the human eye. Photo shopped images are promoted and glorified through social media which can correlate negative thoughts and feelings about body images for many individuals. In fact, “time spent on social media can exacerbate poor body image and/or disordered eating” (Vogel, 2015). Media allows stereotypes, or overgeneralized images or ideas of a particular trait, behavior, or characteristic that reflect on some identifiable group, to formulate (Newman, 2010, 353).…