• The health professional Carla Rice defines body image as “an individual’s experience of his/her body as well as the individual’s associated thoughts, feelings, judgments, sensations, awareness and behavior.”
• Body image plays a big role during teenage age because with puberty girls get curves while guys become more masculine.
• All the rapid changes negatively affects a teenager’s body image. Fat accumulates in the girl’s breasts, hips, thighs, and buttocks. Adolescent girls become preoccupied with the “ideal” body size and associate perfection with thinness.
• These girls are more likely to develop risky eating and exercise practices, such as crash dieting, smoking, and over-exercising. These habits can lead to dangerous eating disorders,
• Body image plays a big role during teenage age because with puberty girls get curves while guys become more masculine.
• All the rapid changes negatively affects a teenager’s body image. Fat accumulates in the girl’s breasts, hips, thighs, and buttocks. Adolescent girls become preoccupied with the “ideal” body size and associate perfection with thinness.
• These girls are more likely to develop risky eating and exercise practices, such as crash dieting, smoking, and over-exercising. These habits can lead to dangerous eating disorders,