{"id":108128,"date":"2025-02-25T00:48:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T00:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/american-history\/another-lesson-for-girls-love-your-body\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T00:48:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T00:48:25","slug":"another-lesson-for-girls-love-your-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=108128","title":{"rendered":"Another lesson for girls: love your\u00a0body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The doyenne of adolescent and college student health history, Knitting Clio,\u00a0has written an utterly appropriate\u00a0lesson for girls, number 11:\u00a0 \u201cLove your\u00a0body.\u201d\u00a0 She adds some thoughts\u00a0too\u00a0about Brooke Shields, and even scares up one of those scandalous old magazine advertisements for Calvin Klein Jeans.\u00a0 (Just click here to see it\u2013go on, click\u2013I know you\u2019re curious.\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t Shields look\u00a0incredibly young to be\u00a0wearing all of that makeup?\u00a0 It was the 1980s, friends\u2013that\u2019s how we rolled when we were in our early teens.)\u00a0 KC writes,\u00a0 \u201cI both hated and emulated\u00a0[Shields] for those Calvin Klein ads \u2014 they were one of the (many) reasons I disliked my body.\u00a0 I dieted strenuously and got real skinny so I could fit into my pair of CKs.\u00a0 Other girls in my high school went further and were hospitalized for anorexia nervosa and other eating disorders.\u201d\u00a0 She continues:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In graduate school, I worked with , and found that what she calls\u00a0 \u201cbad body fever\u201d\u00a0 has been a problem that has plagued women for at least a century.\u00a0 Now that I\u2019m approaching middle age, I\u2019m more tolerant about what my body looks like, even though women of a certain age \u2014 like Brooke \u2014 who still look fabulous have raised the bar considerably.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Right on, sister.\u00a0 (She reminds us of\u00a0the \u201cLove your body\u201d campaign, an adjunct of the National Organization\u00a0for Women.) \u00a0How much of my teens and twenties did I waste obsessing about this body part or that feature?\u00a0 (How much time when you were young and gorgeous did you waste?\u00a0 How much time are you wasting right now?)\u00a0 What a total waste of my time, energy, and youth.\u00a0\u00a0In my\u00a030s, I felt pretty darn great that I\u00a0didn\u2019t completely fall apart cosmetically (I know\u2013<em>how shallow<\/em>), and now that I\u2019ve just crossed into my 40s, I\u2019m finally\u00a0grateful for my body\u2013to have a healthy body that functions well and isn\u2019t in pain seems like a wonderful luxury.\u00a0 It\u2019s done everything I\u2019ve ever asked of it\u2013and more than I deserve, I suppose, considering that I didn\u2019t always take care of it as it should have been cared for.\u00a0 I just spent some time recently with a good friend who\u2019s had breast cancer and a double mastectomy, and\u00a0who reminded me that good health is nothing to take for granted.\u00a0 So, as Knitting Clio says,\u00a0love your body\u2013enjoy it, and <em>take care of it<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The doyenne of adolescent and college student health history, Knitting Clio,\u00a0has written an utterly appropriate\u00a0lesson for girls, number 11:\u00a0 \u201cLove your\u00a0body.\u201d\u00a0 She adds some thoughts\u00a0too\u00a0about Brooke Shields, and even scares up one of those scandalous old magazine advertisements for Calvin Klein Jeans.\u00a0 (Just click here to see it\u2013go on, click\u2013I know you\u2019re curious.\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t Shields [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12032],"tags":[516,11594,465,49071],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-108128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-history","tag-girls","tag-lesson","tag-love","tag-yourbody"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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