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How to Talk To Teenage Girls About Beauty and Body Image

You are not thin enough. You’re too muscular. Your arms are not slim enough.  Your eyelashes are too short, your ankles too fat, your nose is crooked, your hair too curly, you’re too short..you’re simply not enough. It’s different for everyone — because our bodies are so different — but the message is the same: Something needs to be fixed, we are not enough.

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