body image
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- noun
- /ˈbɑdi ˈɪmɪdʒ/
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imagen corporal
- Many people struggle with their body image due to unrealistic beauty standards portrayed in the media.
- body image satisfaction
- a negative body image
- a positive body image
Can you tell me about the relationship between body image and self worth?
- Can you tell me about the relationship between body image and self worth?
- So my question is, do you sometimes still struggle with body image and body confidence?
- Like when you think about body image issues, like I'm not fat, right?
- It's not OK or normal that most women have body image issues.
- See, I think we in in this society, I think we have always confused body image with self-image.
- The crazy thing is my body image didn't change until maybe like four or five years ago.
- So this is a a firefighter doing a sexy firefighter calendar, but he has body image issues.
- Hi you guys, today we're going to talk about health and body image and this is going to be a little bit of a more serious video.
- I've built my whole career online and I was struggling with my body image and how people perceived me, and I actually thought it was normal.
- Today we're going to be breaking down body image, body positivity and getting naked in front of people you don't know.
- Mental health most interestingly, I want to talk about how I believe my blindness effects effects myself esteem in terms of weight and body image.
Examples
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Maybe it's about body image and the fear of being fat.
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"Today, we're going to explore our feelings about body image," she said.
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Can you tell me about the relationship between body image and self worth?
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So my question is, do you sometimes still struggle with body image and body confidence?
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But yeah, I definitely suffered with body image issues in recent years.
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In this research, having fewer social relationships is related to less satisfaction with body image.
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Physical size has been shown to be an important predictor of body image for both women and men.
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It affects her career, her body image and self esteem.
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I've built my whole career online and I was struggling with my body image and how people perceived me, and I actually thought it was normal.
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Regardless, research has acknowledged that teasing by peers and adults contributes to negative body image.
Academic text (2011)
How Distorted
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning of 'body image' is directly derivable from 'body' (physical form) + 'image' (mental or public representation), so it naturally denotes how someone perceives or represents their own body. This noun‑noun composition is a common, cross‑linguistic pattern and follows predictable semantics, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would likely understand the phrase.
Etymology
Body image comes from the idea of a mental 'picture' of your body — the image you hold in your mind, like what you see in a mirror or a photo. So, when people talk about someone's body image, they mean that inner picture and the feelings about their 'appearance'.