Well, sometime I do want to change the way I look. How I wish to be more beautiful. but when I think over it again, I got to the conclusion that I should be proud of who I am and because of the person I grown up to be. And even though begin beautiful let you have face, but that is only the outside part. what important is the inside, your characters and who you are. Your Beauty will eventually died when you are dead, but it is ok to be beautiful and ugly as long as you have a generous heart. I think that teens have more pressure on body image than adult because they are young adult that had never experience problem like this before and they don't know how to cope with it successfully. also, it their romance year of growing up so they care about how they look. but for adult, they are old enough to deal with it and don't stress much about it.

if you have someone to impress (which is at any age - potential crushes, coworkers, bosses, etc), then there is pressure to be better

it's hard to say if there is an age when people feel the pressure to look or act a certain way .. i feel like it's more on the social setting you surround yourself in

the media definitely does not help the perception that girls need to be model-thin

I think its only natural to feel insecure at times. But you have to keep in mind that everyone has their flaws and strengths.  I think teens are the most vulnerable to this idea most of the time. We haven't matured yet and we're still in the stages of "finding ourselves." It doesn't help much that the media focuses a lot of its attention on susceptible teens. We just need to realize this and make sure that we don't fall for it. I live in Orange County - home of The OC, Laguna Beach, and The Hills. Okay, so its not REALLY that great here, but I'd say its pretty close in some areas. So yeah, I guess I'm surrounded by this - "you have to be skinny and cute" mentality.  Teens just need to keep in mind that they're all unique and have their own strengths

Every day society shows us skinny girls on t.v, magazines, movies. We are constantly shown what is believed to be the "right physique." OUr lives became based on what we eat, how we look, what people think of us, and how we are on a scale to those pictures of surreal women.

I think it is solely due to the environment in which we reside in.

I think adults face about the same pressure on body image as teens. For some, even as they grow older, and supposedly wiser, body image is still a concern. Instead of students, adults may face pressure from their coworkers, friends, spouse, or even their own children. Issues with body image does not stop after teen-hood

I think people, especially teenagers, are too concerned with the way they look. The beauty and fashion industry has such an influence through celebrities, the media, and publications on the way we should look, that, that has somehow become the standard. I shiver a bit to say this, but the models in advertisements have had their features enhanced (both digitally and surgically). So the final product you see is actually inhuman.

Just two weeks ago, I saw a documentary at a film festival of about fifteen female college students discussing about how they expect a typical girl should behave or look like and how they thought of themselves. The filmmaker after the screening admitted that it was very difficult at first to open up the interviewees. Some said that they knew someone with an eating disorder, and one even admitted that she used to have one. But to clarify, not only girls have problems with body image. Guys do too. I guess it depends on the culture, where you will see more of one than the other.

If you can take away anything from this, keep these words in mind: /sarcastically/ "That is what this whole multibillion-dollar industry is about: inner beauty." (Nigel from "The Devil Wears Prada)