Pressure to be someone you are not

Being someone you are not is one of the main topics highlighted in the first chapter of the book reviving Ophelia. At a young age girls begin experimenting with several different activities. To start to shape themselves and become a certain way. But often what happens is that the way they've developed to be is different than the way society says they should be. Girls begin to feel a lot of pressure from society in many different ways such as through the media and their peers. All this pressure starts causing girls to feel obligated to be a certain way. So as they get older and become adolescence they start to become someone different. They dress and act in the way society wants them to and forget about their old selves. This often leads to unhappiness because this new person is not who the girl wants to be. They begin to feel more delicate and this is not a good because this sensation leads to bigger issues such as eating disorders.