With rates of obesity escalating worldwide, a new survey of American women reports that 70% of overweight women (versus 41% of thin women) like their bodies less than they like themselves and report that this negative body image is fuelled by unrealistic images of women portrayed in the media. The following is a photo essay of a young lady who after two children (ages 2 and 4) has been working hard to attain what she considers the "perfect body."