Guest guest Posted January 22, 2008 Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 Hi guys, Did anyone happen to catch yesterday's Tyra Banks show? I don't usually watch this show, but I was flipping channels and caught the topic:Mothers and Daughters and Body Image. I only watched the first ten minutes because it got a bit sensationalistic (really? What a shock!) but what I did see was really interesting. There was this woman who was 40, and she had an 18 year old daughter. She'd has the daughter when she was 21 and had spent the rest of the daughter's life blamining the daughter that she didn't have a good enough body. It was unbelievable to hear this woman openly admit feelings of jealousy for the daughter and to say that she'd hoped that when the daughter grew up that people would think that they were sisters. What impacted me the most was that it related to some of the things my mom used to say ( " I'll bet they think we are sisters " ), and even more importantly, the things she DIDN " T say (about being jealous, and foisting her own body issues onto me). Tyra, well meaning as she is, is not talented enough as an interviewer to adequately cover this topic, so I changed the channel when the women showed pictures of themselves in bikinis circling the body parts they don't like, and then the daughters were going to do the same. I think the thing I love most about intuitive eating (and this group) is that it is allowing me to look at the things I have always taken for granted about myself and question them or see them in a different perspective. In this sense, intuitive eating is about so much more than food and whether or not I am " allowed " to eat chocolate chip cookies. It's about really looking at my relationship with food and healing it. It's like growing up where there was so much smog that the sky was always brown. Then one day you go somewhere else and realize that the sky is really blue, it's just that your environment was contaminated. But, you never knew that because it was all you knew. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 22, 2008 Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 I watched the entire show with my own 21-year-old daughter and we found the whole thing fascinating--especially the part about how negative body image is literally passed down generation to generation. I must say I admire Tyra, coming as she does from an image-obsessed industry, for tackling this question. I thought it was really beyond coincidence that I would catch this show--I'm not usually home at that time--on the very day I began my IE process! Beckett Yesterday's Tyra Hi guys, Did anyone happen to catch yesterday's Tyra Banks show? I don't usually watch this show, but I was flipping channels and caught the topic:Mothers and Daughters and Body Image. I only watched the first ten minutes because it got a bit sensationalistic (really? What a shock!) but what I did see was really interesting. There was this woman who was 40, and she had an 18 year old daughter. She'd has the daughter when she was 21 and had spent the rest of the daughter's life blamining the daughter that she didn't have a good enough body. It was unbelievable to hear this woman openly admit feelings of jealousy for the daughter and to say that she'd hoped that when the daughter grew up that people would think that they were sisters. What impacted me the most was that it related to some of the things my mom used to say ("I'll bet they think we are sisters"), and even more importantly, the things she DIDN"T say (about being jealous, and foisting her own body issues onto me). Tyra, well meaning as she is, is not talented enough as an interviewer to adequately cover this topic, so I changed the channel when the women showed pictures of themselves in bikinis circling the body parts they don't like, and then the daughters were going to do the same. I think the thing I love most about intuitive eating (and this group) is that it is allowing me to look at the things I have always taken for granted about myself and question them or see them in a different perspective. In this sense, intuitive eating is about so much more than food and whether or not I am "allowed" to eat chocolate chip cookies. It's about really looking at my relationship with food and healing it. It's like growing up where there was so much smog that the sky was always brown. Then one day you go somewhere else and realize that the sky is really blue, it's just that your environment was contaminated. But, you never knew that because it was all you knew. More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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