This is a little different to my normal posts however I think the word should be spread far and wide about the work that the Australian Body Image Advisory Board is doing right now. For myself, far from the idealistic body that the fashion world portrays (I am 5ft tall and 55kg) and having 2 teenage daughters who are highly influenced by the media, the focus on creating positive media content in the way of diversity,realistic and natural images of people (among many other positive things), is a ground breaking and exciting move toward encouraging us all to be content with who we are and not feeling inadequate because we don't replicate exactly what most magazines & advertising campaigns portray as the ideal.
There is change happening right now & it's exciting. With Germany's most popular women's magazine Brigitte banning professional models from its pages in favour of "real women", the huge following of personal style blogs portraying real people, and groups such as the National Body Image Advisory Board working hard to tackle the issue of negative body image that effects so very many of us. It's about time, but better late than never... Below is Mia Freedman presenting the report..