Author Archive: Michelle Wilkinson

Most women have some aspect of their body which they detest, and become so obsessed with it that it can affect their self-esteem and feelings towards themselves. Instead of looking in the mirror and seeing what makes them uniquely attractive,…
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It can be a struggle to be happy with the body you’ve got when you’re continually comparing yourself to other people. You build up in your head an idea of what ‘perfection’ is and see it in your relatives and…
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You can become addicted to virtually anything that makes you feel good and so an addiction to cosmetic surgery isn’t all that different to all the other kinds of addiction that people suffer from. This can be hard to understand…
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For those of us who cannot afford cosmetic surgery and wouldn’t want to go through all the pain and discomfort of surgery even if we did have the money, it is hard to imagine how an addiction to cosmetic surgery…
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If you’ve always been slender, gaining weight can come as quite a shock to the system, but most of the time you only have yourself to blame if you eat too much junk food and don’t get enough exercise. It…
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If you want to feel more comfortable with the way you look, a useful start would be to stop comparing yourself to everyone else. Sure, you may not be a raving beauty, but that shouldn’t prevent you from leading the…
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When you live in a skinny person’s world it is clear that being overweight can have a negative impact on your body image. Not only do you have to contend with facing yourself in the mirror every day and seeing…
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Body image is shaped by a range of factors, from your exposure to images in the media to how people in your everyday life react to your appearance. This is a very superficial world and so if you fail to…
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It can be difficult to like the way you look when you’re constantly comparing yourself to the glamorous beauties you see on the front covers of magazines. This is a world in which you are very much judged by the…
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If you don’t look after your health, this is bound to have a significant impact on the way you look. Clearly, if you pick up bad habits which undermine your health this is likely to have a detrimental effect on…
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When you’re overweight and manage to lose a few pounds, this usually has a positive impact on your body image, as you start to believe that you can be as skinny as the women you see on television. However, this…
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People have low self-esteem for a variety of reasons – it may stem from a belief that they do not fit in with the rest of society; they may feel that they are less intelligent, educated or somehow inferior to…
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Cosmetic surgery can help boost your confidence levels if you get the results you’d hoped for. If you decide to have cosmetic surgery it usually means there is some aspect of your physicality which you feel insecure or self-conscious about…
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Various factors can influence self-esteem. Your level of self-worth may be determined by your academic success, your ability to form relationships with others and how others perceive you, your ability to succeed in a competitive environment, as well as your…
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For most people it is probably difficult to understand how it is even possible to become addicted to cosmetic surgery, since all their mind is focused on how painful, inconvenient, and expensive it must be. Yet, there are those who…
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Confidence is a positive attribute to have, but it is often something people are lacking in. Maybe they don’t have much confidence in their social skills or their intellect; both of which can be worked on and improved. Similarly, people…
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Cosmetic surgery is no longer the preserve of the rich and famous, as prices have fallen and it has become more normalised. It is not as unusual to meet someone who has had cosmetic surgery done as it used to…
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Individuals each have their own body insecurities that may seem minor to others around them, but which really undermine their confidence levels. They convince themselves that they are too fat or too thin, too small or too short, that their…
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Everyone who decides to have cosmetic surgery does so because there is some aspect of their body they dislike, and believe that surgery is the best way to improve their appearance and reduce their self-consciousness about the way they look….
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Everybody cares about their appearance to some degree, but there is perhaps more pressure on women to look good because that is what they have to do in order to attract a mate, or so we are told. Supposedly, women…
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