"It"s what"s on the inside that counts," says everyone and anyone who"s ever been concerned with a teenage girl"s self-esteem. Apparently, those seven words--or nine if you"re really picky about contractions--will fix a lot. They"ll fix insecurities. They"ll fix self-consciousness. They"ll even fix the fact that none of us can open a magazine or turn on the TV without being bombarded by images of a million pretty girls. So thank every ounce of goodness for those seven words. ...Or not. Any teenage girl will tell you it"s not that simple. One person can easily say, "Sheep are blue," but a billion drawings, movies, and farms will show you that they"re white--and in a few very rare cases, black. Beauty is the same way. It will never matter how many times that one person tells us to look inside ourselves if the world around us doesn"t. As a result, we develop this obsession with the way we look and what people think of the way we look. It can be something as simple and innocent as the...