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Parenting & Pregnancy > Parenting Teens Teen body image and the media: 18 of 48

Pick up a magazine or turn on the television and it will not be long before you get the message that thin is back in. After a brief time period of healthy bodies, we are on the verge of a new "thinsation." With so much media attention focusing on celebrities and thinness, it is hard for people not to feel self conscious and experience body dissatisfaction. Grabe, Ward, and Hyde (2008) found that body dissatisfaction is on the rise with approximately fifty percent of American girls and undergraduate women reporting being dissatisfied with their body. Such feelings of self consciousness and ...
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