7 factors influencing your body image
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![endif]--!-- [if !vml]-- By Harriet Frew, MSc; MBACP Accred
T he development of your body image begins from birth. Many unconscious and conscious messages become woven into your psyche, these then influencing yourbeliefs and perceptions about your body.
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In Western culture, there is a definite preference towards a thinner physique, for women. This preference became particularly amplified in the 1960s, with slender models such as Twiggy, celebrated widely. This trend accelerated through the 1980s with women’s magazines, the promotion of diets and the increased focus on body shape and manipulating it. It could be argued that it reached its peak (pre-social media) in the 1990s, in the era of waif-like super-models, such as Kate Moss.
Since the 2000s, with many more TV channels and the advent of social media, the access to and daily bombardment of idealised images has taken over to such a degree that you ...
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