A Girls life has caused an amazing response in people. Here is one touching email received in response to the show.

“Watching this video made me both happy, and sad. I was happy because someone had FINALLY made a documentary about the TRUE life of girls. However, most of it made me sad. I was sad because everything in it is so true. I can relate to it, my friends can relate to it, all teenage girls are most likely able to relate to something in this documentary. It made me wonder if things will change, or get worse. It made me feel like something needs to be done about it, but I’m not sure what.
I think Rachel Simmons made this video because she wanted to make more resources available to girls so they don’t feel alone in girl world. I also think she made it because people who don’t know about what is going on with girls can now watch this and see that we are not all butterflies and flowers. Rachel Simmons is an inspiration to me because she isn’t afraid to really devote herself and dig into todays girl world.
The part that impacted me most was the cyber bullying with Libby. I have been cyber bullied before, but it luckily wasn’t continued. I received a call from a restricted number, (you can block your number by putting *67 before your number.) I didn’t answer, but then someone had left a voice message. I listened to it. It was one of the meanest things I have ever heard, and still to this day I have no idea who it was. It said things like, “you’re a man, you’re flat chested and have a penis, you’re so ugly, ingriddddddd.” It was fairly long, and I could hear several girls laughing in the background and telling each other what to say. It said other things as well, but I have tried to forget most of it. My mom also listened to it, (I’m not afraid to tell me parents!) and called Verizon to track the number, but they can’t do that. This was during the summer of 2009.
I could also relate to the very beginning when Rachel was reciting statistics about girls and their bodies. All my friends have said something they don’t like about their bodies, called themselves fat, etc. One girl in my ballet class thinks her stomach is big and will do crunches between barre and across the floor, we are basically the same size and when she keeps saying she is fat it makes me feel like she thinks I’m fat, too, which I know I’m not. I started noticing girls being concerned about their bodies in 6th grade, and it has escalated from there. I have tried to lose weight before by eating less and exercising more, but realized I have a pretty dang good body the way it is and went back to the normal me, who LOVES food. I know I am in shape and like my body, but it is hard to constantly be surrounded by stupid ads and boys who are obsessed with Megan Fox, Hayden Panettiere, Bar Rafaeli, and Selena Gomez, instead of liking the girls in front of them. Girls calling themselves fat or thinking that they’re fat is an every day normal thing in todays society.
I hope this video gets shown in schools all across the country. People need to know what is going on. Maybe if more people know about it and are against it, things like impossible ideals in magazines and ads, and cyber bullying will come to an end. People won’t want to do things like fight, bully, and make girls feel bad about themselves anymore if everyone knows what it’s doing, hurting girls.”