NOTES

1. http://en.thinkexist.com/quotation/shelookedasifshehadbeenpouredintoher/217899.html.

2. Excerpt taken from Dateable: Are You? Are They? by Justin Lookadoo and Hayley DiMarco (Grand Rapids: Revell, 2003), 109.

3. http://en.thinkexist.com/quotation/ifmostofusareashamedofshabbyclothesand/220925.html.

4. http://library.adoption.com/Parenting-Girls/Putting-it-all-Together-Is-Body-Piercing-Safe/article/6608/1.html.

5. Statistics on plastic surgery and liposuction are from Alissa Quart, Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers (New York: Perseus Publishing, 2003).

6. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons, http://www.plasticsurgery.org/public_education/2000statistics.cfm.

7. Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 10th ed.

8. Ibid.

9. http://www.factsontap.org/factsontap/risky/the_facts.htm.

10. http://www.factsontap.org/factsontap/risky/discrimination.htm.