Why is it so difficult to feel okay with how you look?

A lot of people do not feel entirely satisfied and may have mixed feelings over time about their body or appearance.

This might be because there is a fixed societal beauty standard and only a tiny proportion of people naturally meet it, which means that the diverse range of different bodies, features and characteristics are not celebrated. This leaves lots of people feeling not good enough and may have urges to change themselves to fit in.

We see these restrictive beauty standards everyday across different forms of media. On social media feeds, TV shows, magazines and billboard ads everyone tends to look surprisingly similar to one another, fitting into this uniform standard of “perfect”.

However, the images we see are almost alway

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