Comments on: Do You Love Your Body? http://www.blisstree.com/articles/do-you-love-your-body/ Family, Health, Home and Lifestyles Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:28:11 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Cherie Burbach http://www.blisstree.com/articles/do-you-love-your-body/comment-page-1/#comment-312679 Cherie Burbach Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:18:08 +0000 http://www.blisstree.com/?p=71182#comment-312679 I think it's a little of both. Younger women today are much more comfortable than their moms were at the same age. But it's also a result of average women in their 40s seeing impossible standards in models and actresses of the same age. Not everyone has the means to get "touch up" plastic surgery or work out all day while someone cleans their house. So women can feel as if they are not "living up" to the examples they see on TV and in the movies. I think it’s a little of both. Younger women today are much more comfortable than their moms were at the same age.

But it’s also a result of average women in their 40s seeing impossible standards in models and actresses of the same age. Not everyone has the means to get “touch up” plastic surgery or work out all day while someone cleans their house. So women can feel as if they are not “living up” to the examples they see on TV and in the movies.

]]> By: Center For Eating Disorders at Sheppard Pratt http://www.blisstree.com/articles/do-you-love-your-body/comment-page-1/#comment-312631 Center For Eating Disorders at Sheppard Pratt Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:23:03 +0000 http://www.blisstree.com/?p=71182#comment-312631 In regards to the stat that younger women (under 30) were 20% more likely to say they are happy with their bodies than older women: Do you think this a result of a successful shift towards self-love for our younger generations? Or, does this stem from increasing cultural and media pressures on women in their 40s, 50s and beyond to maintain an image that was previously only expected of teenagers and twenty-something’s? The Center for Eating Disorders wrote a blog about this survey (http://eatingdisorder.org/blog/2009/06/13/glamour-magazines-2009-body-image-survey-insight-with-a-heavy-dose-of-mixed-messages/) and that's one of the questions that was posed. Would love to hear your thoughts. In regards to the stat that younger women (under 30) were 20% more likely to say they are happy with their bodies than older women: Do you think this a result of a successful shift towards self-love for our younger generations? Or, does this stem from increasing cultural and media pressures on women in their 40s, 50s and beyond to maintain an image that was previously only expected of teenagers and twenty-something’s? The Center for Eating Disorders wrote a blog about this survey (http://eatingdisorder.org/blog/2009/06/13/glamour-magazines-2009-body-image-survey-insight-with-a-heavy-dose-of-mixed-messages/) and that’s one of the questions that was posed. Would love to hear your thoughts.

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