How the internet is amplifying poor body image

By Toni Hassan
Updated April 24 2018 - 9:05pm, first published September 7 2016 - 3:17pm

It's Love Your Body Week, otherwise known as Body Image and Eating Disorder Awareness Week. If you don't love your body, you're in good company. The crowd-funded documentary Embrace, in cinemas last month, told us that 70 per cent of girls don't much love their bodies. Forty-five per cent of women of healthy weight think they're overweight.

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