Maria Puente reports for the USA Today: "Secrets, comedian Chris Rock declares slyly, are bad for the human spirit. That's why he's gleefully talking out of school in his new documentary, Good Hair, which has some people rolling in the aisles and others rolling their eyes."

USA Today's Sharon Jayson reports on the first National Tween Girl Summit and studies on body image issues and self-esteem.

Matthew Creamer reports for Advertising Age: "A group of French politicians led by an expert on eating disorders wants to put warnings on airbrushed photo spreads in magazines as well as doctored shots used in advertisements and packaging."

Crystal Renn almost starved to death to be in Vogue. She finally got there, after she embraced her natural curves. By Kate Harding for Salon.

Frances C. Whittelsey of WeNews writes, "A trio of movies this year explore how beauty in the United States has come to be equated with ultra-thin, highly toned bodies that can't be achieved by most people."

"Eight men, women and children tell of their struggles with anorexia, bulimia and other forms of eating disorders." by Karen Barrow of the New York Times.

Caroline Heldman writes about the NOW Foundation's Love Your Body Day in The Huffington Post, noting that "The sexual objectification of girls and women in U.S. culture that was so indignantly challenged by many Second Wave feminists is now omnipresent, normalized and even embraced."

Kate Harding writes in her "Broadsheet" column in Salon, "If you're like me, your first thought when you hear the words 'Delta Delta Delta' is 'Can I help ya help ya help ya?' This means two things: 1) You're getting old (youngsters, it's from a '90s 'SNL' sketch ), and 2) you probably haven't heard that Fat Talk Free Week begins today."

Kimberly Gadette wrote, "Ah, the sights of summer: movie lines snaking 'round the cineplex, kids splashing in wading pools and scantily clad young ladies at busy intersections holding hand-lettered signs reading 'Car Wash Today!'"

Playing dress-up is a normal part of childhood. But simply test-driving mommy's high heels now has to compete with sexually suggestive pint-size products from pole-dancing kits sold in the toy section to "Hooters Girl (in training)" T-shirts for toddlers to padded bras for 6-year-olds.

Nancy Redd majored in women's studies at Harvard, won Miss Virginia 2003 and placed in the top ten at Miss America 2004. With a postfeminist résumé like that, it was probably inevitable that she would write Body Drama, a version of Our Bodies, Ourselves for the self-image-addled teen girls and young women of Generation Z.

Jennifer Cognard-Black writes, "Coupled with the new, middle-class chic of Flaunt It parties, surgeon safaris, and plastic pageants, it's apparent that the latest tyranny in the North American cult of beauty is the presentation of plastic surgery as a safe, egalitarian option for women (and some men) to better themselves."

Today is the 10th annual Love Your Body Day, a special event created by the National Organization for Women to promote healthy body image among women and girls. Poster contests, body-positive e-cards, letter-writing campaigns to companies that objectify women.

Check out this new video, part of Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty, about the ad industry's attack on women's self-image.

As Pop Culture Targets Ever Younger Girls, Psychologists Worry About a Premature Focus on Sex and Appearance