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{Poll} Plastic Surgery
Mormon Life says: How do you feel about plastic surgery? Is it ever appropriate?
I remember the first time someone I knew chose to get plastic surgery. My good friend often complained that giving birth to five children had left her body in less than ideal condition—and...
{LDSL Blog} Eating Disorders: My Life, Interrupted
Mormon Life says: My senior year of high school, I stopped eating. My freshman year of college, I started throwing up. And the two continued to alternate in my life for the next five years.
I’ve fought and abused my body, trying to destroy it. There were times when my goal really was to starve myself to death and fade away to nothing. Even when I wasn’t fully acting out in an...
Eating Disorders: Not Just About Food
Mormon Life says: Anorexia and bulimia are about more than food, and they aren't just a "phase." They're serious illnesses involving the body, mind, and spirit, and all three must be addressed in order to save the sufferer. I know – I struggled with eating disorders for five years.
My senior year of high school, I stopped eating. My freshman year of college, I started throwing up. And the two continued to alternate in my life for the next five years.Some people didn’t...
Take Back Beauty
Mormon Life says: We know women are capable of much more than being looked at. These are our strategies for taking back beauty and teaching girls and women everywhere how to be confident in their God-given loveliness.
We are 26-year-old twins finishing up the last leg of our PhDs studying how women are represented in media. Our nonprofit work, Beauty Redefined, is all about rethinking our ideas of “beautiful” and...
{Single Saints} Inner Beauty Is Not Enough
Mormon Life says: Author’s note: Though my message was meant to be encouraging, I failed to clarify a few sensitive points. I didn’t consider that in today’s unrelenting assault of negative body messages, my blog might be misconstrued as an invitation to conform to society’s ideals. We should recognize that we each have a personal best that exists independently of what society tells us, one that should be attained out of a sense of personal achievement, not solely to attract a mate. I was wrong to address the article primarily toward women, because men can be equally guilty of failing to care for themselves. I also realize that one cannot simply look at another person and make an accurate judgment on how well that person cares for him- or herself. Nevertheless, the overall message of this blog remains: “Figure out your personal health and appearance standard, then work toward it.” Please bear that in mind as you read the following.
We’ve all heard that beauty is on the inside, in the eye of the beholder, or somewhere else beyond the realm of the physical. And while I will not argue against the idea that inner beauty—a...
Thoughts on the Next Big Birthday
Mormon Life says: A great post on aging and loving ourselves. What are some goals you want to accomplish by your next big birthday?
I am turning thirty this week. Really. Finally. And I haven’t dreaded it at all. I don’t fear wrinkles. I’m not scared of being older than I have been. I like to think I am the type of person to...
Beauty Secret of Mormon Wives, 1923
Mormon Life says: This is pretty funny. It's an ad from 1923 (see it by clicking on the link).
This newspaper and magazine advertisement dates to 1923.
Beauty Redefined: Rejecting the Media's Impossible Standards
Mormon Life says: They’re sad facts that many of us know: You will never see an average American woman represented in the mass media as a “beauty ideal.” And it is completely reasonable to assume that every image of women you see in the media has been digitally manipulated. So why is that where we get our standard for what is normal and beautiful?
In a world where a constant—and we mean constant—flow of media images far exceeds the number of women we could ever see face to face, this abnormally thin and digitally-enhanced feminine ideal has...
