Question: How can people from all walks of life possibly believe in themselves? I watch TV and even on the Internet the whole image is thin, thin, thin. How can we look at all that and still love ourselves even if we are not a size 2? Cause it is hard to ignore all the ads for "skinny people". If you can help that would be great, everyone I know says that you have to be thin to go anywhere.

Answer: First of all please know that you absolutely do not have to be thin to go places in life. I totally understand what you are saying when you talk about pressures from the media. I think that almost every woman on earth feels the same way you do; yet the media still seems to bombard us with the same skinny images. The main thing you need to know is that most of the images that you see on the Internet and on TV are really photo-shopped and retouched to look insanely perfect.