Your body image is how and what you think and feel about your body. It includes the picture of your body that you have in your mind, which might or might not match your body’s actual shape and size. Unhealthy teenage body image is directly related to low self-esteem, which can lead to negative mood and mood swings. Young people who are feeling down are more likely to focus on the negative messages around them and make negative comparisons between their bodies and what they see as 'ideal' bodies.
Rhiannon Lambert
Rhiannon is on a mission to fight diet culture with evidence-based nutrition and build healthy relationships with food free from restriction.
Elsie
Student Advisor
"This nutritionist gets real about food. She explains the intertwinement of eating and mental health and describes great tips on how to find good, long-term healthy eating behaviors. Having a healthy food realtionship is such a tough issue especially as teens, so I'd definitely give it a watch!"
Whitney Way Thore
Thore describes her battle with eating disorders, shame, body image, and fatness. Her candid storytelling embraces her body and rejects fatphobia and those who treat her differently for her body.
Izzy
Student Advisor
"An incredibly moving video with such a powerful story of self love and acceptance."
Megan Jayne Crabbe
A great source of body positivity! Megan motivates and inspires through her fun, bright pictures and quotes.
Megan Jayne Crabbe
A great source of body positivity! Megan motivates and inspires through her fun, bright pictures and quotes.
Kanoa Greene
Plus size bodies can do anything! Kanoa is a great example of body positivity, providing motivation and workout tips.
Kanoa Greene
Plus size bodies can do anything! Kanoa is a great example of body positivity, providing motivation and workout tips.
Reclaiming Body Positivity
A community focused on understanding and promoting the body positivity movement along with its importance, purpose, and history.
Reclaiming Body Positivity
A community focused on understanding and promoting the body positivity movement along with its importance, purpose, and history.
Virgie Tovar
Virgie is dismantling weight discrimination and ditching diet culture. Her goal is to help everyone celebrate their precious bodies!
Virgie Tovar
Virgie is dismantling weight discrimination and ditching diet culture. Her goal is to help everyone celebrate their precious bodies!
Emma Green, PhD
Great informational content about exercise, body image, disordered eating and physical health.
Emma Green, PhD
Great informational content about exercise, body image, disordered eating and physical health.
Marcela Sabiá
Marcela Sabiá is an instragram illustrator and motivational spokesperson whose kind and thoughtful comics and drawings show depedictions of body image concerns, self-love and many other things.
Marcela Sabiá
Marcela Sabiá is an instragram illustrator and motivational spokesperson whose kind and thoughtful comics and drawings show depedictions of body image concerns, self-love and many other things.
Sydney Magruder Washington
Sydney, a young black female ballerina talks openly about mental health, body image, and her identity on her instagram page.
Sydney Magruder Washington
Sydney, a young black female ballerina talks openly about mental health, body image, and her identity on her instagram page.
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Parents can have a strong influence on their children's perspective of their body-image. This can be both positive and negative. The author writes about things parents should keep in mind when talking to their children.
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Parents can have a strong influence on their children's perspective of their body-image. This can be both positive and negative. The author writes about things parents should keep in mind when talking to their children.
Salih, Superdrug
Salih dives into the world of body image, exploring problems relating to appearance in the LGBT community, how and why they arise and the positive steps you can take to overcome them.
Salih, Superdrug
Salih dives into the world of body image, exploring problems relating to appearance in the LGBT community, how and why they arise and the positive steps you can take to overcome them.
Christina Frank | Child Mind Institute
Young boys are often overlooked in these conversations, this article points out the importance of acknowledging all genders in conversations about eating and body image.
Christina Frank | Child Mind Institute
Young boys are often overlooked in these conversations, this article points out the importance of acknowledging all genders in conversations about eating and body image.
Pretty Big Deal with Ashley Graham
Ashley Graham sits down with a true beacon of strength, Demi Lovato. Over the years, Demi has been incredibly inspirational through her transparency and mental health advocacy and in this video she tells all.
Pretty Big Deal with Ashley Graham
Ashley Graham sits down with a true beacon of strength, Demi Lovato. Over the years, Demi has been incredibly inspirational through her transparency and mental health advocacy and in this video she tells all.
Glamour WOTY 2018
The Riverdale actress opened up about self-love at the Glamour 2018 Women of the Year Summit.
Glamour WOTY 2018
The Riverdale actress opened up about self-love at the Glamour 2018 Women of the Year Summit.
Whitney Way Thore
Thore describes her battle with eating disorders, shame, body image, and fatness. Her candid storytelling embraces her body and rejects fatphobia and those who treat her differently for her body.
Whitney Way Thore
Thore describes her battle with eating disorders, shame, body image, and fatness. Her candid storytelling embraces her body and rejects fatphobia and those who treat her differently for her body.
Julia Bell
When her mother sweeps her off to live in the city, Carmen finds that her old world is disappearing. As her life spirals out of control Carmen begins to take charge of the only thing she can -- what she eats.
Julia Bell
When her mother sweeps her off to live in the city, Carmen finds that her old world is disappearing. As her life spirals out of control Carmen begins to take charge of the only thing she can -- what she eats.
Hulu
My Mad Fat Diary follows a 16-year-old who has just left a psychiatric facility and her struggles about her body, her love life, and many other parts of being a teenager.
Hulu
My Mad Fat Diary follows a 16-year-old who has just left a psychiatric facility and her struggles about her body, her love life, and many other parts of being a teenager.
goaskalice.columbia.edu
Go Ask Alice is a group of researchers out of Columbia University that is dedicating to answering questions about everything from depression to sex. They are focused on honest and digestible answers that are targeted towards teens and young adults. This specific seciton is about body image and disordered eating.
goaskalice.columbia.edu
Go Ask Alice is a group of researchers out of Columbia University that is dedicating to answering questions about everything from depression to sex. They are focused on honest and digestible answers that are targeted towards teens and young adults. This specific seciton is about body image and disordered eating.
Tally Rye
A great podcast that will help you have a feel good relationship with body image, food, and fitness.
Tally Rye
A great podcast that will help you have a feel good relationship with body image, food, and fitness.
The Emily Program
There is a high prevalence of body image issues and eating disorders in the transgender community. In this interview, The Emily Program, puts a human face to the issue of body image and identity in the trans community.
The Emily Program
There is a high prevalence of body image issues and eating disorders in the transgender community. In this interview, The Emily Program, puts a human face to the issue of body image and identity in the trans community.
Rhiannon Lambert
Rhiannon is on a mission to fight diet culture with evidence-based nutrition and build healthy relationships with food free from restriction.
Rhiannon Lambert
Rhiannon is on a mission to fight diet culture with evidence-based nutrition and build healthy relationships with food free from restriction.
Seventeen Magazine
Zoella and Tyler Oakley talk about their bodies, their friendship, and so much more.
Seventeen Magazine
Zoella and Tyler Oakley talk about their bodies, their friendship, and so much more.
Megan Jayne Crabbe
A great source of body positivity! Megan motivates and inspires through her fun, bright pictures and quotes.
Megan Jayne Crabbe
A great source of body positivity! Megan motivates and inspires through her fun, bright pictures and quotes.
Kanoa Greene
Plus size bodies can do anything! Kanoa is a great example of body positivity, providing motivation and workout tips.
Kanoa Greene
Plus size bodies can do anything! Kanoa is a great example of body positivity, providing motivation and workout tips.
Reclaiming Body Positivity
A community focused on understanding and promoting the body positivity movement along with its importance, purpose, and history.
Reclaiming Body Positivity
A community focused on understanding and promoting the body positivity movement along with its importance, purpose, and history.
Virgie Tovar
Virgie is dismantling weight discrimination and ditching diet culture. Her goal is to help everyone celebrate their precious bodies!
Virgie Tovar
Virgie is dismantling weight discrimination and ditching diet culture. Her goal is to help everyone celebrate their precious bodies!
Emma Green, PhD
Great informational content about exercise, body image, disordered eating and physical health.
Emma Green, PhD
Great informational content about exercise, body image, disordered eating and physical health.
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Parents can have a strong influence on their children's perspective of their body-image. This can be both positive and negative. The author writes about things parents should keep in mind when talking to their children.
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Parents can have a strong influence on their children's perspective of their body-image. This can be both positive and negative. The author writes about things parents should keep in mind when talking to their children.
Megan Jayne Crabbe
A great source of body positivity! Megan motivates and inspires through her fun, bright pictures and quotes.
Megan Jayne Crabbe
A great source of body positivity! Megan motivates and inspires through her fun, bright pictures and quotes.
Kanoa Greene
Plus size bodies can do anything! Kanoa is a great example of body positivity, providing motivation and workout tips.
Kanoa Greene
Plus size bodies can do anything! Kanoa is a great example of body positivity, providing motivation and workout tips.
Reclaiming Body Positivity
A community focused on understanding and promoting the body positivity movement along with its importance, purpose, and history.
Reclaiming Body Positivity
A community focused on understanding and promoting the body positivity movement along with its importance, purpose, and history.
Virgie Tovar
Virgie is dismantling weight discrimination and ditching diet culture. Her goal is to help everyone celebrate their precious bodies!
Virgie Tovar
Virgie is dismantling weight discrimination and ditching diet culture. Her goal is to help everyone celebrate their precious bodies!
Emma Green, PhD
Great informational content about exercise, body image, disordered eating and physical health.
Emma Green, PhD
Great informational content about exercise, body image, disordered eating and physical health.
Marcela Sabiá
Marcela Sabiá is an instragram illustrator and motivational spokesperson whose kind and thoughtful comics and drawings show depedictions of body image concerns, self-love and many other things.
Marcela Sabiá
Marcela Sabiá is an instragram illustrator and motivational spokesperson whose kind and thoughtful comics and drawings show depedictions of body image concerns, self-love and many other things.
Sydney Magruder Washington
Sydney, a young black female ballerina talks openly about mental health, body image, and her identity on her instagram page.
Sydney Magruder Washington
Sydney, a young black female ballerina talks openly about mental health, body image, and her identity on her instagram page.
Salih, Superdrug
Salih dives into the world of body image, exploring problems relating to appearance in the LGBT community, how and why they arise and the positive steps you can take to overcome them.
Salih, Superdrug
Salih dives into the world of body image, exploring problems relating to appearance in the LGBT community, how and why they arise and the positive steps you can take to overcome them.
Christina Frank | Child Mind Institute
Young boys are often overlooked in these conversations, this article points out the importance of acknowledging all genders in conversations about eating and body image.
Christina Frank | Child Mind Institute
Young boys are often overlooked in these conversations, this article points out the importance of acknowledging all genders in conversations about eating and body image.
Pretty Big Deal with Ashley Graham
Ashley Graham sits down with a true beacon of strength, Demi Lovato. Over the years, Demi has been incredibly inspirational through her transparency and mental health advocacy and in this video she tells all.
Pretty Big Deal with Ashley Graham
Ashley Graham sits down with a true beacon of strength, Demi Lovato. Over the years, Demi has been incredibly inspirational through her transparency and mental health advocacy and in this video she tells all.
Glamour WOTY 2018
The Riverdale actress opened up about self-love at the Glamour 2018 Women of the Year Summit.
Glamour WOTY 2018
The Riverdale actress opened up about self-love at the Glamour 2018 Women of the Year Summit.
Whitney Way Thore
Thore describes her battle with eating disorders, shame, body image, and fatness. Her candid storytelling embraces her body and rejects fatphobia and those who treat her differently for her body.
Whitney Way Thore
Thore describes her battle with eating disorders, shame, body image, and fatness. Her candid storytelling embraces her body and rejects fatphobia and those who treat her differently for her body.
Julia Bell
When her mother sweeps her off to live in the city, Carmen finds that her old world is disappearing. As her life spirals out of control Carmen begins to take charge of the only thing she can -- what she eats.
Julia Bell
When her mother sweeps her off to live in the city, Carmen finds that her old world is disappearing. As her life spirals out of control Carmen begins to take charge of the only thing she can -- what she eats.
Hulu
My Mad Fat Diary follows a 16-year-old who has just left a psychiatric facility and her struggles about her body, her love life, and many other parts of being a teenager.
Hulu
My Mad Fat Diary follows a 16-year-old who has just left a psychiatric facility and her struggles about her body, her love life, and many other parts of being a teenager.
goaskalice.columbia.edu
Go Ask Alice is a group of researchers out of Columbia University that is dedicating to answering questions about everything from depression to sex. They are focused on honest and digestible answers that are targeted towards teens and young adults. This specific seciton is about body image and disordered eating.
goaskalice.columbia.edu
Go Ask Alice is a group of researchers out of Columbia University that is dedicating to answering questions about everything from depression to sex. They are focused on honest and digestible answers that are targeted towards teens and young adults. This specific seciton is about body image and disordered eating.
Tally Rye
A great podcast that will help you have a feel good relationship with body image, food, and fitness.
Tally Rye
A great podcast that will help you have a feel good relationship with body image, food, and fitness.
The Emily Program
There is a high prevalence of body image issues and eating disorders in the transgender community. In this interview, The Emily Program, puts a human face to the issue of body image and identity in the trans community.
The Emily Program
There is a high prevalence of body image issues and eating disorders in the transgender community. In this interview, The Emily Program, puts a human face to the issue of body image and identity in the trans community.
Rhiannon Lambert
Rhiannon is on a mission to fight diet culture with evidence-based nutrition and build healthy relationships with food free from restriction.
Rhiannon Lambert
Rhiannon is on a mission to fight diet culture with evidence-based nutrition and build healthy relationships with food free from restriction.
Seventeen Magazine
Zoella and Tyler Oakley talk about their bodies, their friendship, and so much more.
Seventeen Magazine
Zoella and Tyler Oakley talk about their bodies, their friendship, and so much more.
