Media and Plastic Surgery The images produced by the media will cause people to do almost anything to meet American standards of the perfect body. Plastic surgery offers a quick fix to achieve this, but no matter how much surgery is performed, nothing is perfect. The images produced by the media, the quick solutions and the outcome of the solutions are problems that women of all ages deal with. From the moment of birth, images of physical perfection bombard young minds. When children are young, their minds are fragile and adapt to what they are taught. One of the first toys given to a little girl is a Barbie doll. Girls are shown Barbie and parents tell children that Barbie dolls are beautiful. So girls are taught that Barbie is what a perfect woman is. Eventually, when girls reach middle school, they find in Barbie what they still want to achieve physically, but they find talking about Barbie childish. So they turn to life-size Barbie dolls like Britney Spears and Destiny's Child. Teenage girls, who consider themselves individuals, all strive for the same goal: to become what the opposite sex is attracted to. Teenage girls want to dress up and look like young celebrities, so they put on lots of makeup and wear clothes that would make their great-grandparents roll over in their graves. Schools across the country are taking on parents' jobs by changing the dress code so that girls don't wear clothes that show off their average curves and bare shoulders. Even when girls enter college they are still influenced b...