By Kendall Stewart As a teenager, I’m sick and tired of the negative body images projected on girls these days. We’re constantly being told that we are not skinny enough or not pretty enough. Even singer Cheryl Cole of British rock group, The Girls Aloud, has recently said that she has to “watch” her weight [...]
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Mirror, Mirror: Who’s The Prettiest? One Teen’s Reflections
April 3rd, 2009 by Teen Contributor · No Comments · Parent Talk, Teen Talk
Tags: body image·Childhood·Parent Talk·teen·weight
Our Bodies, Our Daughters’ Bodies
March 12th, 2009 by Karen Feldscher · No Comments · Parent Talk, Teen Health Talk, Teen Talk
My seven-year-old daughter has taken to grabbing her stomach and saying, “I am so fat!” One day she even said to me, “I wish I could just chop it off!” // She’s not fat, by the way. But somewhere along the way, she got the idea that she is. As if we mothers don’t have [...]
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