1. Body Image and the Media

2. Mommy’s little girl

3. Mom, Do I look fat?

4. Helping your daughter with with Body
Image

5. Did you know that….

7. The number one wish for girls ages 11
to 17 is to be thinner,

8. More than half of teenage girls are, or
think they should be, on diets.

9. They want to lose some or all of the 40
pounds that females naturally gain
between ages 8 and 14

10. Girls as young as five have expressed
fears of getting fat

11. 80% of 10-year-old girls have dieted

12. “Young girls have indicated they are
more afraid of becoming fat than they
are of cancer, nuclear war or losing
their parents.”

13. nearly half of all preadolescent girls
wish to be thinner

14. 50 to 70 per cent of normal weight
girls believe they are overweight.

15. About 3% of these teens go too far,
becoming anorexic or bulimic.

18. For too many American girls, being
"model thin" is a very real aspiration,
and it starts at a shockingly young age.

19. The average teen girl gets about 180
minutes of media exposure daily and
only about 10 minutes of parental
interaction a day

20. think the culture is telling them that
they should model themselves after
celebrities who are “beautiful and
sexy."

21. One out of three said they had
"changed something about their
appearance to resemble that
character."

22. two out of three girls "wanted to look
like a character on TV."

23. TV programs focused on appearance
are swaying the self-esteem of girls as
young as 5.

24. 27% of the girls felt that the media
pressures them to have a perfect body,

25. Advertising in teen magazines and on
television typically glamorizes skinny
models who do not resemble the
average woman

26. Research has also found that stringent
dieting to achieve an ideal figure can
play a key role in triggering eating
disorders.2

28. Poor Body Image effects

29. Eating disorder commercial

31. only some of the consequences of
attempting “perfection” We can blame
beauty advertisements. They give us a
DISTORTED view.

32. girls and boys told researchers they
were dissatisfied with their own
bodies after watching a music video by
Britney Spears or a clip from the TV
show "Friends"

34. The doll also came with pink bathroom
scales reading 110lb, which would be
at least 35lbs underweight for a
woman 5 feet 9 inches tall according
to the experts...

36. According to the Media you are
suppose to be, tall, skinny, tan,pretty,
rich, perfect.

37. Young girls don’t realize its an illusion…

38. Distortion…. Dove film evolution

39. There are three billion women who
don't look like supermodels and only
eight who do.

40. The models in magazines are
airbrushed - no one, not even models,
look that good without some help!

41. Marilyn Monroe wore a size 14 and is
still considered one of the most
beautiful women in history.

42. would be six feet tall and weigh 100
lbs! If female mannequins were real
women, they'd be too thin to have
babies.

44. The average American woman is 5'4"
tall and weighs 140 pounds. The
average American model is 5'11" tall
and weighs 117 pounds.

45. Most fashion models are thinner than
98% of American women.

46. Fifteen percent of young women have
substantially disordered eating
attitudes and behaviors.

47. No wonder our perception of Beauty is
distorted…

49. Five to ten million adolescent girls and
women struggle with eating disorders
and borderline eating conditions.

50. Barbie dolls -- those incredibly thin yet
curvaceous toys favored by girls as
young as 3? Banning media exposure
altogether may backfire. "It only
creates the forbidden fruit
phenomenon,"

51. Talk to your daughter before the
media does….

52. You can help your daughter develop a
positive body image.

53. Compliment your daughter on her
appearance,

54. Tell her you like her outfit or the way
she does her hair today

55. Remember that teasing, no matter
how harmful if may seem, can make
her feel self conscious about her
physical attributes or weight.

56. Remind her that every one is different
and beautiful in her own way.

57. Compliment her achievements that
are not related to her looks…

58. Remind her that she is a great person
inside and out!

59. Your attitude may directly shape your
daughters. If you feel good about
yourself, she’ll be more likely to feel
good about herself.

60. influence. If mothers can learn to value
their own bodies, they can teach their
daughters to do so as well.