BODY IMAGE SURVEY

(Jan. 2016) How do you like your body? A new Yahoo Health survey on body image and acceptance, conducted on a nationally representative sample of 2,000 people between the ages of 13 and 64, found that 70 percent of males are either body positive (they love the way their bodies look) or body neutral (they’re OK with the way their bodies look and have made peace with imperfections). But the opposite is true for women: 66 percent of teenage girls are either body negative (they’re dissatisfied with their bodies) or body ambivalent (they have a love/hate relationship with their bodies). More findings from the survey:
– One in seven Americans consider themselves body positive, but men are much more likely to be body positive than women (20 percent vs. 11 percent).
– Teenage males are 3.5 times more body positive than teenage females.
– Women hit peak body positivity between ages 35 and 54 – but that only happens to 13 percent of women.
– More than half of females feel body ambivalent or body negative.
– 94 percent of teen females have experienced body shame, but only 64 percent of teen males have experienced it.
* I was fine with my body until I heard this survey.
* Actually my body looks great as long as it’s dark in the room.
* These results would have been worse, but many people were eating when the phone rang and didn’t take the survey.
* On the bright side, we very rarely get a chance to see ourselves from behind.
* So – how many of you folks got a Fitness Club membership for Christmas?
* I think it’s trendy to say you don’t like how you look – do the false modesty routine.
* How many times has an actress said, “I hate the way I look. I don’t think I’m pretty at all”? Oh yeah? There had to be some reason you moved to Hollywood.
* You don’t think it’s because you’re awesome at acting, do you?
* Then when an actress gets heavy, she says, “It’s not supposed to be about our bodies.” But as soon as she’s thin again – BAM – here come the bikini shots.