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A quote from The Times said, “The average woman worries about her body every fifteen minutes, even more than men think about sex”, what are we worried about so much? Ruth Nicholas conducted an internet survery and her findings showed that women in relationships found themselves less attractive than there partners did and generally failed in realising the things that made them attractive to their partner. She concluded from this that women are their own worst critics. The man in your life doesn’t see what you see as flaws, he just sees the woman he fell in love with; he may see your flaws but to him they are simply part of you and why he loves you. Your not a bag of imperfections but a complex creature who enriches his life. So then, why, are 4 out of ever 10 women constantly on a diet?

When we look for confirmation of our beauty, we compare ourselves with media images, and nearly always come up lacking. These images are not real images of beauty – they are indicators of impossible standards to achieve in order for companies to make more profit. In a word, they form a trap.

It is sad to know that modern ideas on beauty are designed more for profit that anything else. Put up images of perfect, stick thin women and anyone will start to feel insecure. And when this happens women are more likely to start spending – on new clothes, new beauty products [the magic new elixor!] or on endless diets. The diet industry alone is estimated to be worth $100 billion [US] alone. Insecurity breeds despiration and is the perfect catch for the beauty industries net. But does all this worry and expense make you more attractive to men, or more likely to have a fulfilling relationship? Are men just as much victims as women? Well according to a newly identified mental disorder “Centerfold Syndrome” they are. This syndrome is used to describe men who classify the women around them in order of how they look; their sizes and shapes and men who have this prefer looking at picutures of women rather than actually interacting with them. They fear intimacy. And it is not a harmless disorder, it has been linked to the increase in divorce and spousal abuse and has been identified as the root of a growing boredom in marriage relationships.

It is important to think then that media images of beauty are not only impossible to live up to but they also contribute to the collapse of intimacy between men and women. Simply winning your battle with the diet is not enough, it could just mean that finding the new, slim, you has turned you from the whole woman you were seen as into a two dimensional image. Your man will equate you with a magazine or TV picture rather than the real person you were to him. In trying to fall into line with the modern image of beauty you are in fact risking the breakdown of your relationship.

The real key is finding a real relationship. When you fall in love with someone your beauty starts to shine. If you start a relationship that is not based on a real connection with a person, then it is doomed to fail as it is not a good relationship. So what if you have a great body, slim waist, great boobs? This could be the lethal flaw, as it could end up with you attracting the wrong sort of man, a superficial one, a using one.

For the people who love us, just what is it they find attractive in our body? You need to be open to the answer as it could surprise you! It certainly surprised the women who took part in Ruth’s survey. In our hunt to find our real beauty we should think of men as our allies, not our enemies. It is the deep bonds we have with men that can provide the key to what makes us uniquely beautiful. Haven’t we all heard the saying that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, it didn’t spring up from no where! It is in finding someone who is truely connected with us that allows us to see the true beauty we have within.

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