Women also feel less beautiful when they are viewed through a stereotype. Since African American women have not been equally represented in the media, there is this notion that full figure and healthy African American women are motherly. Dia Sekayi, author of “Aesthetic Resistance to Commercial Influences: The Impact of the Eurocentric Beauty Standard on Black College Women,” quotes a source, Fordham, who states that “…African American women are not seen as the archtypal symbol of womanhood…”