Girl Scouts of the USA launched the Body Appreciation Program to help young girls build confidence. Fact checked by Sarah Scott Body image issues among girls is far from a new phenomenon. But the rise ...

This is the first post in a series. Quite often, body image is discussed as if it were an issue that resides in and belongs only to the individual person. And because it is often seen as a personal ...

Ultrathin dolls could be detrimental to young girls' body image, a new study has shown.Researchers observed 5- to 9-year-olds playing with dolls of different body types and found girls who played with ...

In 2010, researchers released a study on body image among girls 8 to 17. The findings are contradictory. Sixty-five percent of the 1,000 girls surveyed think that the body image represented by the ...