Every body is beautiful

Women tend to have an unhealthy view of themselves and their weight. My friend Amanda totally has body dysmorphic disorder. She thinks she's fat and has cellulite, but she's a size 6 and 5"7. She's perfectly fine. In fact, she looks great! But she worries about it all the time and constantly puts herself down.

A new study says we women really do have issues with weight that are tied to our brain patterns, even if we think we don't have issues.

Where does this come from? Do women in other countries have it? Is the woman in Uganda worried about her weight? I bet so. In African countries it's posh to be fat. It means you're well taken care of. A skinny woman isn't looked on as being able to have babies or be well off. So I bet skinny women in Africa worry all the time on how to gain weight or make themselves look heavier.

The opposite is our reality here in the States. We're constantly looking to be thinner. Since the beginning of our union we've looked to corsets and other binding contraptions to make us look thin. We have Spanx now, thanks to that wonderful invention spandex. Spandex makes thousands of women feel better in their clothes. We're always looking at magazines with skinny women, and trying to fit into the smallest sizes we can. Even the fashion industry plays into it. Clothes aren't really the size you buy. They're all labeled down so that you feel better buying them. I bet I'm actually a size 8, not 6. I sure was closer to a 16 when I was wearing 14s.

"No matter the cause, body image issues are not likely to disappear anytime soon; as the current study reveals, even women who think they have healthy body images have brains that tell them otherwise."

Body issues will probably continue to run rampant in this society until we start realizing that every body is beautiful. And women say they do it for a man's attention, but men don't care. We do it for other women. Like we dress for other women. Men don't care what you're wearing, but women sure do. We need to get over our fear of ourselves and just accept what is. Love thyself.