Dads impact on Daughters Body Image Dr. Robyn Silverman Do dads have an impact on girls’ body image development? You betcha! I just finished a great interview with Joe Kelly aka “The Dad Man” in preparation for writing the chapter on Dads for my body image book. Number 1 question on my list: How important [...]
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I’ve been thinking about this question as I’ve been writing my book on girls and body image. I know it’s an ugly question– showing an ugly side of human nature. But the more girls who write to me about how they view themselves and others in their schools, the more I wonder if this question [...]
I’d Really Appreciate Your Help with Something that’s VERY Important… I’m writing a book and I NEED your stories to help parents and adults understand what to do and what NOT to do when it comes to girls and body image. The more you share the more everybody benefits! We all have stories from our [...]
A movie that answers the question: Is America obsessed with beauty? In Chicago? This movie opens next week! Go here for details. Darryl Roberts – Director of “America the Beautiful” says; America the Beautiful is my 2 year journey into the world of beauty obsession, pop culture and plastic surgery. Leading up to this sadistic [...]
Media uses photo retouching for many reasons; changing color, lighting, and feel of pictures. Editors can put make-up on, take clothes away, thin out, bulk up, or completely change the model in the photo. Which leads to the questions; is it ever OK to look like yourself? Can real teens every look as good as [...]
Congrats to all those who wrote about it! Proctor and Gamble removed the controversial article from their BeingGirl.Com website that many of the Body Image and Parenting Blogs, including KMA, wrote about recently. Here is the result from our concerned colleagues over at Parents for Ethical Marketing who complained personally: “As of Saturday morning, the [...]
On a recent episode of Intervention, a show on A & E, a mother and daughter were highlighted. While the intervention was initially meant to be focused on the daughter, Caylee, it became clear that the mother, Christy, also needed help. As a young girl, Caylee remembers her mother picking on her and telling her [...]
Since February is Love your Body month, it’s time to take inventory on how you’re doing in this department. No, no, not how you’re doing in the weight department– but rather, in the “loving your body” department. The Curvy Life put out an assessment to put you to the test. Curvy Angela writes: The first [...]
On my google alerts today, I found something that put a shiver down my spine. It was a card written on the “Post Secret” blog. PostSecret is an ongoing community art project that asks people to mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade card. Todays card was related to body image. [...]
