WIP Contributor Courtney Martin shared her experience writing Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters - a look into today's obsession with thinness and the enormous price many young women pay for perfection.

There once was a day when women's figures in magazines were fuller, more realistic and more representative of the average population, so to hear Ms. Maury complain that she won't be able to publish anything is just pure rubbish and only reflects the current paradigm in fashion. Paradigms can change.