From hourglass curves to thin and lean -- a look into the transformation of the ideal female body in an age consumed by social media.

Public opinion can encourage negative perceptions of food and weight among students.

These students activists, appalled by the objectification of women in media, take their classroom learning out into the BC community.

Advertising sets women up to fail at feeling beautiful, attaining perfection, and loving themselves they way they are.

Love Your Body Week events take a unique spin on self-image and expression.

"Looking back on it now, I wasn’t living my life as much as reading through the daily script that my eating disorder wrote for me." - Erin Sutton A&S '16

All the blame cannot fall on photoshop for unrealistic beauty standards in the media; women need to realign themselves with what is real and own their appearance.

It is critical that we take advice from the self-confidence queen, Beyoncé, and first accept our bodies, flaws and all, in order to see ourselves as “Flawless.”