We need to make girls feel confident about their own body (Eleanor Burnham )

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Eleanor Burnham <info@eburnham.org.uk>

We need to make girls feel confident about their own body

August 4, 2010 1:30 PM

Commenting on Girlguiding UK's petition to introduce compulsory labelling on airbrushed images, Welsh Liberal Democrat Assembly Member for North Wales, Eleanor Burnham said:

"I am delighted that Girlguiding UK is taking up this issue as I am concerned that people of all ages are feeling so much pressure over their body image - especially young girls.

"There is plenty of scientific evidence that being exposed to so many unrealistic images in the media can be harmful to people's health and wellbeing.

"We need to make girls feel confident about their own body and to help them realise that manipulated images are unrealistic and untrue. Girls need to stop being encouraged to aspire to the unreachable as they will only become more and more unhappy in the process."

Eleanor added:

"The Girl Guides have done an incredible amount of work over recent years with their annual 'attitude surveys' and their most recent survey showed that girls as young as ten are worried about their weight.

http://www.girlguiding.org.uk/system_pages/small_navigation/latest_news/tell_us_the_truth.aspx