Children and Body Image
We need to talk about it. Too soon.
5 min readJul 22, 2019
Whenever I see or read about beauty pageant stories of 6–7-year-old girls and I see the mothers doing their makeup and curling their hair, I cringe. The same thing happens when a child actor is pushed by a parent. Or when I see a mum forcing her 3-year-old daughter to go to ballet classes against her will. I cringe, and I feel deeply sorry for the child who is…
