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Barbie vs Average 19 Year Old Teen, How Do They Measure Up?

July 8, 2013 by Shaylene King In: Body Image Tagged: Barbie, body image, CDC, Center for Disease Control, Demi Lavato, Girl Bullying, mean girls, Nicholay Lamm, normal, Scott Stump, teen girls, teens tweens, TODAY

The above picture is a  3-D model created using Photoshop and the Centers for Disease Control’s measurements of the average 19-year-old woman. What a fantastic  representation of what is real and normal for a teenage girl. I love the article by Scott Stump which I have included in the link below because he sheds light on an issue and topic which is a very real for every teenage girl…body image. I have mentored teen girls for almost 20 years now and the biggest struggle is body image. And it’s not only teen girls. I believe we as women in general struggle… 

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