Pop culture has influenced body image ideals in several ways in recent years since 2000. Body image is when someone 'one looks in the mirror and checks out his body. Some people may like what they see, but the majority of people don't. Everyone has at least one flaw that they don't like; no one is perfect. Lately, most teenagers and young adults dream of having a perfect body that they would stop eating or working out ten hours a day in order to look like the hottest new celebrity. Most Americans usually entertain themselves with television, music, social media, or magazines. In all these entertainments, the viewer recognizes celebrities and notices beautiful and incredibly fit bodies. In the article "Beauty and Body Image: The Media and Its Negative Effects on Body Image" by Eve Florence Chernoff, she states: "Women's magazines contain ten and a half times more advertisements and articles promoting weight loss than men's magazines. , and more than three-quarters of women's magazine covers include at least one message about how to change a woman's body clothing” (Chernoff). Basically, Chernoff says magazine companies encourage women to look thin, which is good, in a way, for being fitter and healthier. However, some magazines promote these advertisements that make women feel less than they are worth. Pop culture has become a huge aspect in today's world and almost everyone watches television daily and sees the majority of celebrities or models who are underweight. Lately, pop culture is causing women and men to doubt their bodies and increase their insecurity. In the aforementioned article, Chernoff states: "Twenty years ago, models weighed 8 percent less than the average woman....... middle of paper ......d or edited with image enhancement software” (Tucker). In this quote, Tucker explains that most of these celebrities use tons of makeup or are corrected to become the "perfect" image by a computer. Some teens and adults don't realize that most celebrities don't look like they appear in photographs. They think celebrities have the most beautiful bodies and skin tones, but in reality this is not the case. Most teens who think celebrities are perfect reinforce their low self-esteem, which can lead to depression or, in extreme cases, suicide. Pop culture has also positively influenced body image through the Dove campaign, which sends powerful messages to women to just be themselves and love their bodies. In today's world, pop culture has influenced body image in both positive and negative ways, through media such as magazines, television or music..