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My Friend had been "Brainwashed"
I'm 18/f and my best friend is 16/f. She is a very pretty girl. Perfect weight, shape for her age. But like every other girl in America she constantly sees the ads in magazines and on TV that say we have to be 'better', 'thinner' 'sexier'. I never thought she was into that garbage. But lately she's constantly rambling about how the models and the stars diet and work-out to have the perfect body, and I'm starting to worry about her. I've given her the "You don't have to look like that to be perfect" speech, but she just gets angry and stars listing off the things that are "wrong" with her own body (flabby thighs, un-sculpted abs etc.)
What can I tell her to snap her out of this?
Thanks
Concerned
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Show her the below video. It shows how those imperfect women look so perfect.
In other words, the people she sees in the media that she thinks look so great, don't even exist.
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Tell her the truth, almost all holywood pictures are airbrushed, so that they look perfect. Tell her that guys don't like anorexic perfect girls, they don't. It's sad that in todays society looks is the only thing that matters. Don't put pressure on her, like don't talk about someone being fat of anything like that, cuz that will imediatly make her think of herself
hope all goes good.
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