Yesterday was the NOW Foundation's 13th annual Love Your Body Day. It's message: to love yourself and eliminate dangerously unrealistic standards of beauty-- an urgent, relevant and inspiring to women and girls everywhere.
Eighty percent of women are dissatisfied with their appearance, and a startling 49 percent of 3 to 6 year old girls worry about being fat. By the fourth grade, more than 80 percent of girls have tried a fad diet. Research has demonstrated that after watching TV and reading magazines women feel worse about themselves than before they started.
NOW chapters, sororities, high school clubs and women's advocates everywhere avow that women are beautiful as we are, no Photoshop or unhealthy products required.
We are worth so much more than a society that consistently tells women and girls they are worth less. No woman or girl deserves to feel ashamed of her appearance. To the many who do, NOW Foundation urges you to love yourself as you are. Having nearly lost my life to anorexia as a high school student, I know how difficult this can be. But I also know:
Loving yourself gives you the power to make the world a better place.
--Statement of NOW Action Vice President Erin Matson (edited slightly, original HERE)
--Statement of NOW Action Vice President Erin Matson (edited slightly, original HERE)
It is the perfect opportunity to introduce you to poet Desdamona, whom I saw last month perform her important work: Too Big for My Skin
WOMEN: Don't miss this vid!!
WOMEN: Don't miss this vid!!
