Creating A New Culture of Body Love, One Page at a Time

2017-12-19T16:53:11+00:00September 6, 2016|Empowering girls, Guest bloggers, Women in media|

Roz MacLean's The Body BookLike so many girls who grew up with Barbies and princesses for role models, I not only had trouble accepting my own body, but being accepted by others.  I was teased in kindergarten for being chubby, because, even at this young age, children knew that it was bad to be fat.

The idea that thin is good and fat is bad is drilled into us from the time we can first understand the toys we love and the images we see on screens.  The popular dainty-waisted princess associates thinness with virtuosity, kindness, desirability, specialness, and worthiness of attention.