ABSTRACT
For males, the heavily muscled, tanned stereotype trends strongly reflect not only a body image, but also how a healthy young man should look. Even in adult males, this perception predominates and gyms are full of men trying to achieve this aim. In the case of young females, even in cultures where the curvy figure was once valued, they now aspire to the thinner models they see on catwalks and in the pages of their favorite magazines.
