Body image

One third of girls Grades Nine to Twelve think they're too fat and not pretty enough.

From this article I was reading, expert Toronto psychiatrist and broadcaster Dr. Irvine Wolkoff says "The phenomenon is hateful, up until the mid-sixties women were full-figured. It all started with Twiggy, whose "concentration camp prettiness" was initially greeted with horror. But somehow, that became the model of modern feminine beauty. Twiggy's success, plus the fact that all clothing looks good on really skinny women has given us two generations whose ideal of feminine beauty is based on skinniness, but bony, boyish women do not constitute normal ideals of feminine beauty."


I know I'll never be a size 2...but I'm working hard at losing the excess weight I've been carrying for too many years and it's a battle every day. So it's difficult for me to understand the mindset of someone who stands in front of a mirror, emaciated, starving themselves, sticking their fingers down their throats to make themselves vomit up any miniscule amount of food they've ingested and still think they're fat.

I just don't get it...