The computer program Adobe Photoshop is frequently used to modify images of models in order to make them appear much thinner than they actually are.  At times, the modifications have been so outrageous that they have led to protests, particularly against the fashion brand Ralph Lauren. 

These ubiquitous photoshopped images are presented as if they are real; women and girls who encounter these images are never told that the standards of beauty and the female bodies they see in magazines, on billboards and in advertisements have been altered and are in fact not representative of real women's bodies.

Women deserve to know that the images presented to them as beauty ideals are indeed fake, and that the thinness presented in many of these images would be unhealthy and unnattainable in real life.  Photoshopped images should carry disclaimers stating that they have been altered, in order to prevent even more unrealistic standards of thinness and beauty from taking hold in a society already plagued by serious eating disorders.