I think that the media played a large role in Ortiz Cofer's longing to fit the American ideal of women. Her struggles with her body image came about as she moved from Puerto Rico, where her petite frame was admired, to America where muscular strong women were seen as attractive. Her perceptions were created by the media. She referred to comic strips and specifically Wonder Woman as her ideal body or role model and she was willing to take drastic measures to achieve this body type or persona. It is evident that the images planted in her mind of "attractive" women were seeded by media and american societies view of women, but it is also notable that those perceptions of women demonstrated by the society is influenced by the media just as much as Cofer was when she arrived.