TODAY In her new book, “Do I Look Fat in This?,” Jessica Weiner says moms who fixate on dieting can influence their daughters’ behavior. There’s no denying that mothers and daughters have always shared a special bond with each other. Mothers have a powerful influence on their daughters that can be positive — or, sometimes,…
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P. Jefferson Mothers, daughters and body image – it’s an emotional and sometimes volatile mix. Our parents’ attitudes about eating and how we should look weave their way into our childhood and continue to affect us well into adulthood. A seemingly harmless word here or there from our mother can have an emotional charge whether…
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By Suzanne Koven, M.D., Psychology Today Mother and daughter communicate in the language of fat. My patient–I’ll call her Amy–was heavy. Her mother, Sybil, also my patient, was thin. At Amy’s visits to my office we always discussed her weight. At Sybil’s visits Amy’s weight also came up frequently. “Doctor, can’t you make her lose?”…
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By Peggy Orenstein, www.nytimes.com Food is never just food. Food is love. Food is solace. It is politics. It is religion. And if that’s not enough to heap on your dinner plate each night, food is also, especially for mothers, the instant-read measure of our parenting. We are not only what we eat, we are…
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By Dara Chadwick Author of You’d Be So Pretty If…Teaching Our Daughters to Love Their Bodies–Even When We Don’t Love Our Own PsychologyToday.com We can break the mother-daughter body loathing cycle. Did you happen to catch the results of the latest body image survey by Glamour magazine? The survey asked nearly 300 women of all…
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This is what the proportions of a life-size Barbie doll would look like. Galia Slayen, who transformed the iconic Mattel toy into a life-size replica model, is an anorexia survivor. The Barbie stands 6 feet tall with a 39″ bust, 18″ waist and 33″ hips and wears a size 00 skirt that Galia used to…
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www.thedailybeast.com Ashley Judd’s ‘puffy’ appearance sparked a viral media frenzy. But, the actress writes, the conversation is really a misogynistic assault on all women. The Conversation about women’s bodies exists largely outside of us, while it is also directed at (and marketed to) us, and used to define and control us. The Conversation about women…
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“One of the biggest mistakes that we make in current days’ society is we tie body image to self-image. You have to remember that you are the same person as you were before what will be a temporary problem.” – Dr. Phil
By René L. Todd, www.Self.com What happens to the bond between a daughter and her mom when one of them gets thin and leaves the other behind? “You look just like your mother.” My mom happened to be in town, visiting my home near Washington, D.C., for the annual profusion of cherry blossoms, and this…
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