Body Drama: Real Girls, Real Bodies, Real Issues, Real Answers | Nancy Amanda Redd

Body Drama: Real Girls, Real Bodies, Real Issues, Real Answers | Nancy Amanda Redd | I need to buy another one, I keep lending mine out!

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	Body Drama: Real Girls, Real Bodies, Real Issues, Real Answers Nancy Amanda Redd Gotham, 2007 - 272 pages average customer review:based on 62 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

“You’d think a Miss America swimsuit winner would feel completely confident about her body, right? Not always! So I decided to write the book I wish I’d had as a teen and in college— an honest, funny, practical, medically accurate, totally reassuring guide to how women’s bodies actually look, smell, feel, behave, and change. Alongside real-deal photographs of women just like you and me (no airbrushing, no supermodels, no kidding) you’ll find medical pictures of things you need to be able to recognize, true confessions by yours truly, and the encouragement you need to appreciate the uniqueness, strength, and beauty of your body. What are you waiting for?”
–Nancy Redd

From fashion magazines to taboo Web sites, curious young women have access to tons of old wives’ tales about and thousands of airbrushed and inaccurate images of the female body—misinformation and harmful portrayals that can lead to low self-esteem, self-destructive acts, or even disturbing plastic surgery procedures. Teaming up with a leading physician specializing in adolescent health issues, Harvard graduate and former Miss Virginia Nancy Redd now offers a down-to-earth, healing, and reassuring response to those damaging myths. In Body Drama, Redd gives girls insight into the issues they’re often too ashamed to raise with a doctor or parent. She also reveals her own experiences with the culture of “American beauty,” and shows readers all the many versions of “normal.” From body hair and bras, to acne and weight issues, along with crucial issues such as the importance of a healthy self image, Body Drama is a groundbreaking book packed with informative fast facts, FYIs, how-tos, and moving personal anecdotes as well as hundreds of un-retouched photographs. A highly visual book, it’s the first of its kind for women: filled with real information and real photographs of real bodies, to celebrate all our different shapes and sizes.

Named by Glamour magazine as one of America’s top-ten college women “most likely to succeed—at anything,” Redd has spent the most recent years of her life on a mission to tackle the issues least discussed but most significant in young women’s lives. Celebrating the many versions of “normal,” and replacing seriously erroneous information with the honest, medically proven truth in a language all girls can understand, Body Drama dares to empower a new generation—with facts instead of fantasies, and the priceless gift of self-knowledge.

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OUTSTANDING!!!

This book shoud be on every mothers shelf and on every teenagers shelf. It is a wonderful resource! Its honest and accurate. It is so refreshing to have someone finally put a book together to answer questions that all women, not just girls, have. I am 45 and I learned from this book. I bought it for my 23yr old daughter who just had a baby. I bought it for my sister in law to have for my nieces. I cant say enough good things about this book. Buy it! You will learn and you will be encouraged!

I need to buy another one, I keep lending mine out!

I was orphaned at 9, and never really felt comfortable asking my peers or anyone else questions about my body. We've all been there, and as women we're taught to be flawless...and if we're not flawless, to hide the fact so no one knows!

I bought this book and red it without an hour of it arriving from cover to cover. Once I was done, I started carting it around everywhere and showing it to all my female friends. In fact, I don't think it's been home for more than two days since then!

I told everyone it was at an insanely reasonable price on Amazon, and I'm pretty sure they'll all be buying copies for themselves and for female friends and relatives.

/Every female should have this book!/

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A Must For All Girls

I bought this book for my 13-year-old daughter because I know there will be times when she will read/need this book. She wasn't too excited about it when I gave it to her, but it is a book that is personal in nature and content and has dead-on photos of body parts. While she may be reticent about reading it now, I'm glad I bought it for her because it is the most comprehensive girl's book I've seen. You really get your money's worth with this book. Whether my daughter's 13 or 20 when she reads the book, I know she has an excellent reference about self identity and body type when she's ready.

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Fabulous book for teens

Wish I had this book when I was fourteen...Wish my daughter had this book when she was fourteen...Wish every girl could have this book at fourteen! Honest, comfortable, fun, friendly and optimistic. Very well designed,great photos of real women, deals with all sorts of body issues in a realistic and highly affirming way.

Overall, an A.

I purchased this book for my tween niece but read it first so I could ensure it was a. appropriate, b. informative, and c. interesting. It met my expectations, but did not exceed them. It had more of a "highlight" approach and didn't get into any problem solving. Truth be told, it didn't claim to have solutions and always recommended talking to a professional if there were a concern or desire for direction. All in all, a decent buy but I plan on having her finish reading and discussing it then I'll share it with other moms with similar aged girls as it's not something I'd (or anyone else?) re-read.

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