Implants, Skinny Jeans & Hair Extensions...OH MY!
The Madness Must Stop!
Operation Innocents is devoted to exposing the lies being fed to our young girls by the media and pop culture.Visit often as we share the best educational videos, books, websites, and training tools to help you empower the young ladies in your lives to respect themselves and feel good about their bodies.
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Did You Know...
In a survey of girls 9 and 10 years old, 40% have tried to lose weight, according to an ongoing study funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
In a study on fifth graders, 10 year old girls and boys told researchers they were dissatisfied with their own bodies after watching a music video by Britney Spears or a clip from the TV show "Friends".
A 1996 study found that the amount of time an adolescent watches soaps, movies and music videos is associated with their degree of body dissatisfaction and desire to be thin.
One study reports that at age thirteen, 53% of American girls are "unhappy with their bodies." This grows to 78% by the time girls reach seventeen.
Source: National Institute on Media and the Family
Talk With Your Daughters Before the Beauty Industry Does
Onslaught - a Dove Film
One of Many Reasons I Love the Body Shop - Great Ad!
Real Women on Flickr
Here are just a few of the fabulous faces you won't see on the cover of Vogue
Celebrities & Body Image in the News
- Is it fair to savage Britney's figure? - Yahoo! News
- The consensus is clear: Britney Spears performed like she was sloshing blindfolded through mud at MTV's Video Music Awards. No one disputes that the troubled pop princess royally mangled her much-heralded comeback.
Jamie Lee Curtis Bares All
You can read more about her transformation here....
On a sidenote, my sister recently gave me a couple of children's books written by Jamie Lee. They are wonderfully engaging and cute stories that help promote self-esteem.
My favorite is...
I'm Gonna Like Me - Letting Off a Little Self-Esteem
Clearly, Jamie walks the walk.....
The Lies - Exposed
Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media
Amazon Price: $10.88 (as of 12/02/2009) 
Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes
Amazon Price: $18.21 (as of 12/02/2009)
DEADLY PERSUASION: Why Women And Girls Must Fight The Addictive Power Of Advertising
Amazon Price: (as of 12/02/2009)
The Girl on the Magazine Cover: The Origins of Visual Stereotypes in American Mass Media
Amazon Price: $20.65 (as of 12/02/2009)
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
Amazon Price: $10.88 (as of 12/02/2009)
Send a Free Real Beauty E-Card
Teens' T-Shirts Make Educators Squirm
Wednesday, September 27, 2006; Page A01
Ashli Walker rifled through a rack of designer T-shirts one recent afternoon, pondering which one she should buy and wear the next day to Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Prince George's County. The big black one that read, "TRUST ME..I'M SINGLE"? Or the snug white T-shirt emblazoned with, "I KNOW WHAT BOYS WANT"?
They're blatantly sexual, occasionally clever and often loaded with double meanings, forcing school administrators and other students to read provocations stripped across the chest, such as "yes, but not with u!," "Your Boyfriend Is a Good Kisser" and "two boys for every girl." Such T-shirts also are emblematic of the kind of sleazy-chic culture some teenagers now inhabit, in which status can be defined by images of sexual promiscuity that previous generations might have considered unhip.dove evolution
Director Tim Piper Ogilvy, Yael Staav (soft citizen). Soho - post production, Rogue - editing, Vapor music - sound and mixing, Gabor Jurina - photography, Make-up - Diana Carreiro, music - Flashbulb and Vapor. Ogilvy creative team: T Piper & M Kirkland. Thanks Dennis Lewis and Malcolm Poynton for starting it and Ogilvy Toronto and New York for expanding it. Go Dove. Great brand. Great people.
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True Colors
Dove Photoshop Transformation-In the eye of the beholder?
A Girls Self Easteem - Dove Video
Beautiful
....another great video to share with your daughters.
Anorexia and the Media
Too Much Too Young
Pink - Stupid Girls
....a rockin song, with an important message.
What Real Women Look Like....
Empowering Books for Little Girls
Oh, the Places You'll Go! (Classic Seuss)
Amazon Price: $10.52 (as of 12/02/2009)
I Like Myself!
Amazon Price: $10.88 (as of 12/02/2009)
Incredible You! 10 Ways to let your greatness shine through
Amazon Price: $10.17 (as of 12/02/2009)
So Few of Me
Amazon Price: $10.08 (as of 12/02/2009)
The Dot (Irma S and James H Black Honor for Excellence in Children's Literature (Awards))
Amazon Price: $10.08 (as of 12/02/2009)
Mean Girls, Cliques and Sex...Oh My!
Empowering Books for Big Girls
No Body's Perfect: Stories by Teens about Body Image, Self-Acceptance, and the Search for Identity
Amazon Price: $10.36 (as of 12/02/2009)
Being a Girl: Navigating the Ups and Downs of Teen Life
Amazon Price: $14.81 (as of 12/02/2009)
My Feet Aren't Ugly!: A Girl's Guide to Loving Herself from the Inside Out
Amazon Price: $9.32 (as of 12/02/2009)
Mean Chicks, Cliques, And Dirty Tricks: A Real Girl's Guide to Getting Through the Day with Smarts and Style
Amazon Price: $8.95 (as of 12/02/2009)
Changing Bodies, Changing Lives: Expanded Third Edition: A Book for Teens on Sex and Relationships
Amazon Price: $16.47 (as of 12/02/2009)
Mothers, Daughters & Disorders
- Hand Me Down Eating Disorders
- Our
mothers often give us our first cues about our bodies. So
what happens when a severe eating disorder keeps your mom
hospitalized for most of your life? Writer and Sundance-featured
filmmaker Hope Hall
shares
her struggle to embrace and understand her bulimic and an
Girl Power!
Wonder Woman Juniors Distressed Girl Power T-Shirt by Junk Food
Amazon Price: (as of 12/02/2009)
Girl Power Youth Hooded Sweatshirt
Amazon Price: (as of 12/02/2009)
Girls Rule (2007 Calendar): A Very Special Calendar Created Especially for Girls
Amazon Price: (as of 12/02/2009)
Girls Rule-Basketball Adult T-Shirt
Amazon Price: (as of 12/02/2009)
Media Messages & Girls
- Media cited for showing girls as sex objects - USATODAY.com
- Advertising and media images that encourage girls to focus on looks and sexuality are harmful to their emotional and physical health, a new report by the American Psychological Association says.
- The Australian, News from Australia's National Newspaper
- News from The Australian, national and international news, with indepth business sections including The Australian IT, Higher Education, Media, and Aviation. Also lifestyle, arts and sports.
You Go...J-Love! Jennifer Love Hewett Fights Back
Jennifer Love Hewitt Responds to Bloggers Who Call her Fat
My husband saw this photo on E-Entertainment this evening. He responded by saying..."Are you kidding me...she isn't fat!""Oh my gosh...I love you soooo much right now", I replied.
Can you believe that the country is actually debating whether or not a size 2 woman is FAT?
I am so proud of Jennifer Hewitt right now. She is one of the few celebrities that has been willing to fight back for us common...*fat* folk.
I couldn't fit my left leg into a size 2 and I've *never* been referred to as fat.
Sheesh.
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