Comments on: Women And Body Image: Ten Disturbing Facts

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:20:07 +0000

It’s a sad situation, but most americans are overweight and need to work at losing weight. It’s a clear-cut, black and white health issue. If your fat, then you are at higher risk for almost every illness. However, I think it’s even more important for women to feel beautiful for who they are, since body image can be changed and altered fairly quickly, where as someone’s personality is who they are and is less mutable. I tell my girlfriend she’s beautiful for who she is and I really think that prevents her from looking at the mirror as often.

By: adelaide

adelaide — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:04:42 +0000

what about the boys? how do we help them counteract their skewed perceptions of female beauty?

By: Leanne

Leanne — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:07:40 +0000

I’m glad I’m not the only one that feels that way I do.
Unfortunately, it takes less than 3 minutes for me – more like 3 seconds.
I never buy women’s mags because they depress me and I can’t understand why any women who feels bad about their body image would buy one – how stupid is that! Also, I gave up TV 5 years ago. But unfortunately I can’t escape the bombardment of billboard advertising that feature soft porn, skinny women in not much clothing

By: Cees

Cees — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:37:18 +0000

Thanks, this is good to know. Hope a lot of women read this. Actually writing form Spain, the country with one the highest rates of surgery for body improvement. And also where girls do surgery at a very young age already.

By: David

David — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:44:31 +0000

I wish women could worry less about being skinny. We men don’t think the skinny “ideal” is ideal any more than women believe the ideal man is 300lbs of muscle.
Evidence?? Look at the difference between the models used to sell to woman (e.g. fashion/ bridal mags) vs. those used to sell to men (e.g. muscle and car mags, general mens mags).

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By: Christine

Christine — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:56:11 +0000

I played with Barbie dolls all my life and they never gave me an unhealthy body image. Reason for that is I never needed to look up to Barbie as what I should become. She was just a toy, not a person. I enjoyed acting out life scenarios with her and designing clothes for her to wear. She wasn’t an idol for me. My mother was my role model and I wanted to be like her. I also had a close knit family who were always there to remind me that I was, and am, good enough.

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