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Women Of All Sizes Feel Bad About Their Bodies After Viewing Models

We're all familiar with the studies that show heavier women feel worse after seeing images of the "thin-ideal" women portrayed on television and in magazines. However, a new study published in this month's Sex Roles: A Journal of Research shows that even women at low weights are affected.

Eighty-one European-American women were measured on feelings of body and appearance satisfaction. Some of the women then viewed neutral images while the rest looked at magazine ads featuring models for one to three minutes. They were then re-evaluated on feelings of body satisfaction, with results showing that all women who were exposed to magazine ads reported lower levels of body satisfaction.

Read more: Women of All Sizes Feel Badly about their Bodies after Seeing Models
ABSTRACT: Predictors of Media Effects on Body Dissatisfaction in European American Women

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