Not-so-shocking news...

I don't really think that this is surprising to any women anywhere, probably, but now there is a scientific study to back up the fact that looking at models makes women feel worse about their own bodies.
Women Of All Sizes Feel Badly About Their Bodies After Seeing Models

The study suggests that the majority of women would benefit from interventions aimed at decreasing the effects of the media, regardless of weight. Mintz said past interventions have targeted specific groups of women, such as those with pre-existing eating and body-image concerns, but this study suggests that reducing the acceptance of mass media images of women and trying to stop the social comparison process is important for helping all women.

I was thinking the other day about how much my sense of body size has been warped, partly, I'm sure, by exposure to media. I was watching this season's "America's Next Top Model" (clearly part of the problem, hah), and I found myself automatically always thinking of the "plus-sized models" who are on the show this season as "fat." In reality, these girls are probably like a size 8 or 10, maybe 12 at the very most, and are therefore thin by real-world standards. (What is the average for American women these days? Like 14 or 16, I think?) Because I'm constantly looking at them next to all these size 2 models, they look large. So I feel like that's a microcosm of what happens with women's actual body image... and most women are not even perfectly proportioned, fit, 6-ft tall bombshells, like these "plus-sized" girls are.