That if shop mannequins were real women, they’d be too thin to menstruate?
There are 3 billion women who don’t look like super-models and only 8 who do.
Marilyn Monroe wore a size 14.
Models 20 years ago weighed 8% less than the average woman. Today they weigh 23% less than the average woman.
If Barbie was a real woman, she’d have to walk on all fours due to her proportions.
The average woman weighs 144 lbs. and wears between a 12-14.
One out of 4 college aged women has an eating disorder.
In one U.S. National survey, women feared being fat more than dying.
A survey of formally fat people revealed they would rather be blind or lose a limb than be fat again.
Americans spend more than 40 billion dollars a year on dieting and diet-related products. That’s roughly equivalent to the amount the U.S. Federal Government spends on education each year.
46% of 9-11 year olds are sometimes or very often on diets.
It is estimated that 40-50% of American women are trying to lose weight at any point in time.
Underweight males have body images just as negative as overweight women’s body images.
This Page is a tribute to loving not only yourself but your body.This Page is a place for women to come and talk and share and just give input on what they think about the medias impact on our body image.This Page is a project of a group of girls in a club called Girls For A Change. The ultimate goal of the club is to make a social change in our community.In our club, we've decided what impacts us and effects us directly is self body image.
Did you know?
-Eating disorders, such as Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa, are the third most common chronic illnesses among adolescents.
-Eating disorders may have serious psychological and physical effects if left untreated, including osteoporosis, feelings of hopelessness, slowed growth, heart disturbances and loss of menstrual periods.
-Eating disorders often occur with other mental disorders such as depression, substance abuse and anxiety disorders.
-It is estimated that 7 million women and 1 million men have an eating disorder - National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD).
-86 percent of people report the onset of their eating disorder by the age of 20 - ANAD 10 year study.
-More than 90 percent of people with eating disorders are women between the ages of 12 and 25.
-The number of men and older women who are being diagnosed with eating disorders is increasing.
Media's Effect on Body Image
The popular media (television, movies, magazines, etc.) have, since World War II, increasingly held up a thinner and thinner body (and now ever more physically fit) image as the ideal for women. The ideal man is also presented as trim, but muscular.
In a survey of girls 9 and 10 years old, 40% have tried to lose weight, according to an ongoing study funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (USA Today, 1996).
A 1996 study found that the amount of time an adolescent watches soaps, movies and music videos is associated with their degree of body dissatisfaction and desire to be thin (Tiggemann & Pickering, 1996).
One author reports that at age thirteen, 53% of American girls are "unhappy with their bodies." This grows to 78% by the time girls reach seventeen (Brumberg, 1997).
In a study among undergraduates media consumption was positively associated with a strive for thinness among men and body dissatisfaction among women (Harrison & Cantor, 1997).
Teen-age girls who viewed commercials depicting women who modeled the unrealistically thin-ideal type of beauty caused adolescent girls to feel less confident, more angry and more dissatisfied with their weight and appearance (Hargreaves, 2002).
In a study on fifth graders, 10 year old 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" (Mundell, 2002).
In another recent study on media's impact on adolescent body dissatisfaction, two researchers found that:
Teens who watched soaps and TV shows that emphasized the ideal body typed reported higher sense of body dissatisfaction. This was also true for girls who watched music videos.
Reading magazines for teen girls or women also correlated with body dissatisfaction for girls.
Identification with television stars (for girls and boys), and models (girls) or athletes (boys), positively correlated with body dissatisfaction (Hofschire & Greenberg, 2002).
((http://www.mediafamily.org/facts/facts_mediaeffect.shtml))
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YOU HAVE BEEN MY FRiEND FOR SOME TiME NOW AND i HAVE BARELY READ UR PAGE.. AND i LOVE WHAT YOUR TRYiNG TO DO FOR BOTH MEN AND WOMEN.! iM GLAD THAT THERE ARE MORE AND MORE PEOPLE WiTH MY SAME PROBLEM.. THANKS FOR THE ADD AND KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK. !!
I want you girls to know how proud I am of all of you!! You have all grown so much over the time we have been a Girl Action Team. This page is awesome and I'm so glad I get to be a part of it! (ps we have a meeting tomorrow!)
At first I thought this page was a spam page and wasn't gonna accept the invite, but after looking at it...very cool! All the facts are very interesting and love what you are trying to do! (= Yay for self-confidence!!!
the organization is fucking amazing i was just talking with my friends about the screwed up society in which we live in because my friend is being teased in schoo because shes over weight and then i looked at her and realized that i way more than her and i never ever thought i was ever over weight but the media gets into you brain and screws over the image of what a real women should look like. so i just want to say thanks for starting this organization and inviting me into it. Always Mayor!
I think what you're doing is absolutely amazing. This page shouldn't just be dedicated to women because its even hard for some men to love their bodies! But through confidence and sheer determination, I'm loving my body even more everyday. I just wish everybody saw things the same way I did. Good luck in your movement.
you're absolutely welcome. i've been through a lot and learned that you really do have to love your body. it just takes differant amounts of time for people. and thanks. :) i think youre guys' project is going to do amazing! :D -♥Kolee
hey. wow. thanks for the friend request. i read over ur page and i'm really happy you guys did. i think its great what you've started. my senior project was on eating disorders and teen obesity almost a year ago. ontop of that i have mine own struggles... i ended up losing 70pounds my senior year. i hope u guys get more supporters. i'll def pass this along :D -♥Kolee
