There has been a lot of research into the media's portrayal of celebrities and how it affects both men's and women's views of body image. Although there have been few changes in recent years to what is considered beautiful today, women and men continue to go to great lengths to achieve the "perfect" body image. The media influences men and women through its portrayal of what celebrities look like and how it makes them look. Through the use of airbrushing and other techniques, magazines and other media change a celebrity's appearance and create a more perfect appearance, which is then what society sees. Men and women strive to resemble images that are impossible to achieve. In this work the role that the media have on the body image of men and women will be investigated. Media portrayals of celebrities are hypothesized to influence the body image of men and women, as well as the time it takes them to achieve the perfect body image. The following eight literature reviews attempt to demonstrate and support this hypothesis. Specific questions were addressed in guiding this study in a research article by E. Mooney, H. Farley, and C. Strugnell (2009). First, do celebrities have an influence on young girls? Second, does the media also influence teenage girls' views on body image and what is beautiful? The focus of this investigation was on adolescent females through the use of a group session to discuss their feelings. Celebrities are hypothesized to play a dominant role in most participants' lives (Mooney et al., 2009, p. 489). The reasoning behind using a group session as the procedure was that talking to their peers rather than the researcher might have different... half of paper... asked to participate in a questionnaire regarding a celebrity that the person admired. 8 months later the participants were then asked to report whether they had had plastic surgery or not. The findings support the hypothesis that intense celebrity worship can lead to cosmetic surgery in a young adult. This hypothesis differs from the research conducted by Young et al. (2012) stating that worshiping a celebrity can have positive and not just negative effects. Research conducted by Maltby and Day (2011) reports the opposite stating that “higher levels of celebrity worship will be associated with elective cosmetic surgery with the individual establishing an identity using the celebrity as a physical exemplar” (p. 488) . Given the diversity of opinions, it is difficult to say for sure whether celebrity images have more positive or more negative effects on body image.