Are you too concerned with being nice, accommodating others and being seen as ladylike? Here's why you might be hurting your body image.
About the Book
I grew up listening to my mom bemoan everything from the size of her thighs to the shape of her eyes. So you can imagine my dismay the first time someone exclaimed, 'You look just like your mother!'
So begins You'd Be So Pretty If...: Teaching Our Daughters to Love Their Bodies -- Even When We Don't Love Our Own (Da Capo Lifelong Books, May 2009), former Shape magazine columnist Dara Chadwick's guide to breaking the mother-daughter cycle of bad body image. With humor and compassion, Chadwick uses her own story -- as well as those of the women and girls she interviewed -- to reveal everything from what girls learn when mom diets to the trigger words that can set off a body image crisis. You'd Be So Pretty If... offers fresh and useful strategies to help you build a strong body image foundation for your daughter -- even if your own body is far from what you'd consider "perfect."
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For the Media
- Interested in interviewing Dara? Contact Kate Burke at Kate.Burke@perseusbooks.com.
More Dara
- Fit In Real Life
Read Dara's archived blog about maintaining weight loss -- without her Shape support team. - Dara's Web site
Learn more about Dara's career as a freelance journalist.
Don't know what is wrong what is rite but i know that every one has there own point of view and same goes to this one
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Yes I agree with you. Right now I am on dieting. I prefer little food in whole day with vegetables. I like healthy and feet body.
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