Adele and ‘Body Image’: Here we have an Ipad displaying a common view of body image that adolescents encounter, which is negative and destructive to self-esteem. We offer, instead, an image of Adele and a quote that is both positive and relatable. Adele presents a happy, healthy body image, one that is not necessarily mainstream.

• According to an ongoing study funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, in a survey of 9 and 10 year old girls, 40% have tried to lose weight. • In a study on 10-year-old fifth graders, both girls and boys told researchers they were dissatisfied with their own bodies after watching a music video by Britney Spears or a clip from the TV show "Friends". • A 1996 study found that the amount of time adolescents spend watch soap operas, movies and music videos directly affects their perception of the human body. • One study reports that at age thirteen, 53% of American girls are "unhappy with their bodies." This percentage typically increases to 78% by the time these girls reach seventeen years old.

Source: National Institute on Media and the Family

A Kaiser Foundation study by Nancy Signorielli found that:

In movies, particularly, but also in television shows and the accompanying commercials, women's and girls' appearance is frequently commented on.

 58% of female characters in movies had comments made about their appearance.

 28% of female characters in television shows and 26 percent of the female models in the accompanying commercials had comments made regarding their image.

 Mens' and boys' appearance is talked about significantly less often in all three media: a quarter (24%) of male characters in the movies, and 10 percent and 7 percent, respectively, in television shows and commercials.

• One in every three (37%) articles in leading teen girl magazines also included a focus on appearance, and most of the advertisements (50%) used an appeal to beauty to sell their products.

• The commercials aimed at female viewers that ran during the television shows most often watched by teen girls also frequently used beauty as a product appeal (56% of commercials). By comparison, this is true of just 3 percent of television commercials aimed at men.