I recently watched a documentary called America the Beautiful that made me think about how I think about myself physically. The movie shows how media shapes our personal physical image. Let me tell you, it is not a possitive image. We compare ourselves to the images we see from TV, movies, magazines and music. Most of the images that we see are altered either by the photographer or by the computer. When we see these images incomparison to our own image we end up feeling less or not beautiful enough. Then to add to that we usually express this verbally. I have caught myself saying negative things about my physical appearance and most of the time my two impressionable daughters of 8 and 10 were in present company.!!! =((.
Please, please , if you are a mother of daughters, watch this documentary.