National Love Your Body Day happens every October. Here's how we celebrated...
Students made buttons with sayings like "everyBODY is beautiful" to challenge messages from dominant culture about body image and beauty.
Hollywood and the fashion, cosmetics and diet industries work hard to make each of us believe that our bodies are unacceptable and need constant improvement. Print ads and television commercials reduce us to body parts — lips, legs, breasts — airbrushed and touched up to meet impossible standards. TV shows tell women and teenage girls that cosmetic surgery is good for self-esteem. Is it any wonder that more than 80% of fourth-grade girls have been on some form of fad diet?
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