1. What did you (or your friends and parents) consider your “best feature” during your adolescent/teen years? What was your “worst feature”—the aspect of your appearance that you felt required the most care of upgrading?
Answer: During my adolescent years I was essentially a board, I was 5’6 and 95 pounds, if that helps to create a visual. My best physical feature was by far my smile during adolescence. Having a great smile served as a distraction for the god awful acne I was suffering through, essentially creating a balancing act on my face. My acne was horrendous, my hair was always homely in appearance and I completely lacked a figure so I was grateful for a pretty smile. I felt like my body, in its entirety needed to make an entire 180. I was so unhappy with my physical appearance that I cannot pin point a specific feature to distinguish as my worst. Yet those areas joined to create …show more content…
The first being an Islamic school where everyone wore loose-fitting clothes, and it was impossible to decipher body images. I was however able to tell that I was taller than the rest of my class mates, and had reached menarche before my peers. I then transferred to a public school, within a very urban demographic where I was still taller than many of the other girls, but my body was very boyish in appearance compared to the other girls. At my first school I would say this had no effect what so ever because the male and female students were kept separate and if we discussed body image students would be severely punished. These conditions created almost the perfect environment for a person to go through puberty in. In the second school, I quickly became very image conscious, and because of this I thought something was wrong with the way I looked. I was almost obsessed with having a body like the other girls so that I could fit
Answer: During my adolescent years I was essentially a board, I was 5’6 and 95 pounds, if that helps to create a visual. My best physical feature was by far my smile during adolescence. Having a great smile served as a distraction for the god awful acne I was suffering through, essentially creating a balancing act on my face. My acne was horrendous, my hair was always homely in appearance and I completely lacked a figure so I was grateful for a pretty smile. I felt like my body, in its entirety needed to make an entire 180. I was so unhappy with my physical appearance that I cannot pin point a specific feature to distinguish as my worst. Yet those areas joined to create …show more content…
The first being an Islamic school where everyone wore loose-fitting clothes, and it was impossible to decipher body images. I was however able to tell that I was taller than the rest of my class mates, and had reached menarche before my peers. I then transferred to a public school, within a very urban demographic where I was still taller than many of the other girls, but my body was very boyish in appearance compared to the other girls. At my first school I would say this had no effect what so ever because the male and female students were kept separate and if we discussed body image students would be severely punished. These conditions created almost the perfect environment for a person to go through puberty in. In the second school, I quickly became very image conscious, and because of this I thought something was wrong with the way I looked. I was almost obsessed with having a body like the other girls so that I could fit