Here it is! Dr. Robyn Silverman's First-Ever Interview on Good Girls Don't Get Fat: How Weight Obsession is Messing Up Our Girls and How We can Help Them Thrive Despite It.
It's that time of year. The time of year when girls (and many boys too) are thinking about how they look and how others will see them as school is starting and everyone is getting the once over…many times over. How is your daughters' body image fairing under the pressure? How can we help our girls deal with negative media messages, fat talk, and their own family body image culture? I had the privilege of speaking with ABC's Parenting Show Host, Annie Pleshette Murphy, about my book, Good Girls Don't get Fat, body image, girls, parental influence, and how we can help our girls feel good about themselves at a time when it's natural to feel self conscious.
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excellent!!!! keep fighting the good fight….
Awesome job, especially incorporating studies, and how messages are affecting girls and boys of any size, and we need to really work hard on prevention efforts, especially in parental modeling. Love
Great job and such an important message that we start from home. As the mom of a four year old daughter I am really trying to model positive talk and actions at home. What is perhaps most challenging is dealing with the myriad of outside pressures to conform to a specific body type. I have been doing a lot of reading on this topic and although I know that there is considerable interest in moving toward a more open definition of beauty, I am extremely concerned that this is not happening either fast enough or with a broad enough scope.