Social media and beauty standards place ever mounting pressure on women to fit in and look pretty. A new study has found that one in five British women has been told they’re not good enough.
Comments like this can be detrimental to mental health and wellbeing, leading to extreme measures to change their appearance or personality. The study also found that a third of women were made to feel inadequate at some point in their lives with regards to how they look.
One in five were also told they’re too loud or vocal in aspects of life such as work and socialising. Most devastating, 30% were told they would be better if they were skinner or curvier compared to just 9% of men who were told the same thing.
