AIRED: October 19, 2020
SPECIAL GUEST: Dr. Charlotte Markey
It is worrying to think that most girls feel dissatisfied with their bodies and that this can lead to serious problems including depression and eating disorders. Can some of those body image worries be eased?
Body image expert and psychology professor Dr. Charlotte Markey helps girls aged 9-15 to understand, accept, and appreciate their bodies. In her new book, THE BODY IMAGE BOOK FOR GIRLS: Love Yourself and Grow Up Fearless she provides all the facts on puberty, mental health, self-care, why diets are bad news, dealing with social media, and everything in-between.
Through this easy-to-read and beautifully illustrated guide, Dr Markey provides practical, helpful and safe techniques to help them improve how they view and understand their bodies—both the physical and the emotional aspects—as they become women. Girls will find answers to questions they always wanted to ask, the truth behind many body image myths, and real-life stories from girls who share their own experiences.
ABOUT DR. CHARLOTTE MARKEY
Dr. Charlotte Markey, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology and founding director of the Health Sciences Center at Rutgers University and has been a leading author, spokesperson, researcher, and clinician in the field of body image for more than two decades.
She is the author of Smart People Don’t Diet: How the Latest Science Can Help You Lose Weight Permanently, which Scientific American praised as “possibly the best book about weight loss ever written,” and Body Positive: Understanding and Improving Body Image in Science and Practice, co-edited with Drs. Elizabeth Daniels and Meghan Gillen. Her first book written for pre-teens, THE BODY IMAGE BOOK FOR GIRLS: Love Yourself and Grow Up Fearless.
Markey regularly writes about individuals’ eating behaviors, body image, and health for U.S. News and World Report (Eat + Run blog), Psychology Today (Smart People Don’t Diet blog), as well as other publications. Her research has garnered widespread media attention, and she has been featured in and interviewed by The New York Times, The Economist, US
News and World Report, The Today Show, Health Day, ABC News, Time Magazine, Health Psychology, The Washington Post, Science Daily, Psych Central, Men’s Health, as well as numerous other media outlets.0
