First draft of introduction

Women have always been treated as an object of desire. They are there to look perfect, but what is perfection? for years women have tried to achieve the size zero image, repeatedly shown in the media. Diets, exercising and even starving themselves, females have gone to extreme lengths to cope with these ideologies. However recently we have seen a rise in women being "real women", and the media has supported this with shows that promote larger sizes to be normal, sexy and accepted, but why has there been such a shift in the ideologies?