7 Ways to Help Girls Thrive in a World Still Obsessed With Thinness
By Robyn Silverman, Contributor | Aug. 8, 2017, at 6:00 p.m.
Make sure your conversations with your daughter don't fixate on her appearance. Highlight her courage, character or other strengths. (Getty Images)
In 1996, my freshman year of college, one of my friends asked me if my thighs touched. This gifted young woman, with deep brown eyes, a sharp brain and kind heart, worried that her thigh proximity would deem her unlovable.
The question, and all that it symbolized, stuck with me. I’ve spoken to countless other friends along the way who felt similarly that, despite their strengths, appearance trumped or overshadowed other attributes.
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