A routine doctors visit. You sit in the waiting room looking for something to keep your interest just long enough until that one person you've been hoping would come calls your name. Then more waiting. With nothing to do, you see posters on the walls to read, or magazines on the table. On the covers of these magazines, or the focal points of the posters, "beautiful" people. What society views as the perfect person takes over the covers, whether it's a "hot" celeb such as Lindsey Lohan, or Jessica Alba. Skinny models in the ads for our favorite pair of jeans, or some hot new fashion item on page 23. These images are everywhere. Even on the poster for diabetes, or some other disease, it's some skinny, pretty, model portraying the sickness, giving off the idea that even sick people are supposed to be beautiful.
These small images are put into peoples heads giving a distorted view on what people should look like according to society. It makes people think that if you aren't skinny, don't have the perfect smile, hairs in all the right places, or the right kind of make-up, that they themselves are ugly. Seeing these things in places like doctors or dentists offices, we sometimes don't notice that they effect us and change the way we see beauty, or ourselves. Sitting there reading about how the latest celeb lost all of her baby weight and got back down to a size 0 generally makes people want to do the same thing. Images everywhere change how we view not only other people, but also ourselves.