By WomensHealth.gov
A healthy body image means you feel comfortable in your body and you feel good about the way you look. This includes what you think and feel about your appearance and how you judge your own self-worth.
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What I’m hoping to do here is help portray the incapacitated form in an optimistic light and defy the labels enforced upon us by society.
To say that fatphobia is not connected to anti-Blackism is to not understand the deep-rooted history between the two.
The removal of women's body hair has been a social requirement for as long as I can remember. At age 14, I was begging my mum to let me get my eyebrows threaded and my upper lip waxed, and for her to finally introduce me to "the razor.
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I had spent years disliking my body and now I would give anything to have it back!
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I live in a culture that’s only too eager to court my vanity.
The scar represented the loss of my younger self’s sense of invulnerability, and — no surprise — triggered a fear of death.
Knowing that all people who undergo treatment for cancer will face some sort of changes to their bodies and self-perception is both normalizing and challenging.