A Look at Body Image Issues for Women Through History

Over the years since the early 1900’s and way before the ‘body image’, especially for women has been something of a yo-yo ride. Even as far back as the early 300 B.C.’s you can see images of Egyptian women scantily clad with nothing but sensual bodies, while the men were strong and muscular, well built to both work and take care of their every growing families. 

Our children are bombarded from a very young age of being a ‘weight conscious’ world. Little girls are given skinny mini Barbie dolls while boys are given muscular GI Joes. Children are bombarded with commercials of models, showing them a constant image to try to ‘be’ while being shown also that a good place to eat is a fast food restaurant. It is clearly confusing and the government does not try to make it any easier. Obesity is getting higher and higher while the rate of suicides as well as diseases such as anorexia, bulimia or even “bigorexia” just seems to be getting further and further out of hand. Yet no one seems to know what to do about our ever growing problems.