Adolescent girls can be more fearful of gaining weight than cancer, nuclear war, or losing their parents.
Sources:
Southern Connecticut State University
South Carolina Department of Mental Health
My Big Fat Feminist Pregnancy
July 9, 2012
As a girl playing with my dolls, I always pretended they were other people’s kids. As an adult I lumped getting pregnant with getting married, and slapped a “no thank you” on both.
