Title: You'd Be So Pretty If…
Description: I grew up listening to my mom bemoan everything from the size of her thighs to the shape of her eyes. So you can imagine my dismay the first time someone exclaimed, "You look just like your mother!" Every mom wants her daughter to feel confident in her own skin, but may often unconsciously impose her own "body image blueprint."
Subjects: Nonfiction, Women's Studies, Self-acceptance, Mothers and daughters, Body image, Adolescent psychology