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Body Image (Negative/Poor)

By Psychology Today

What do you think you look like? Body image is the mental representation an individual creates of themselves, but it may or may not bear any relation to how one actually appears.

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Tennis Icon Billie Jean King on Body Image in Sports

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2x Crossfit Games Champion, Katrin Davidsdottir Gets Real About Body Image | #NoFilter | SHAPE

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If our bodies aren’t functional, does it matter what we look like? Many times, when we talk about getting healthy we’re really using coded language to discuss something else—looking healthy.

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