body image

What is Body Image?

How you see or picture yourself.

How you feel others perceive you.

What you believe about your physical appearance.

How you feel about your body.

How you feel in your body.

Body image involves our perception, imagination, emotions, and physical sensations of and about our bodies. It s not static- but ever changing; sensitive to changes in mood, environment, and physical experience. It is not based on fact. It is psychological in nature, and much more influenced by self-esteem than by actual physical attractiveness as judged by others. It is not inborn, but learned. This learning occurs in the family and among peers, but these only reinforce what is learned and expected culturally.

is that what we perceive as the perfect body image?

woman with bound feet?



the long neck ladies (padaung)?


woman who have smallest waist?






smile with black teeth?



beaty = bone?




body modification?tattoo?piercing?Scarification?




Dennis Smith, the cat man


body image?is these kind of things a MUST HAVE?