Collective Voice: How media consumption influences body image

Grade 9 students in the Collective Voice program at Aden Bowman Collegiate share their lives and opinions through columns. Selected columns run each Monday in The Saskatoon StarPhoenix.
 
At a very young age, I was taught that being beautiful in a southeastern Asian country was to have light skin, a slim body, and long, dark hair. These were the features that every female model had, so I dreamt of having skin that matched a model’s tone, a body without a single roll, and hair that tou