How to talk to your kids about body image — without toxicity

Photo credit: RDNE Stock project via Pexels. Article by Jennifer Gerson. The 19th – August 11, 2026.

We’re once again in a cycle of headlines that feels acutely focused on celebrity and weight and eating disorders. And unfortunately there will likely be more tomorrow and the next day and on and on. It can be overwhelming, especially if you’re still feeling the effects of the extreme thinness culture that dominated the 1980s through the early aughts — the supermodels and Snackwells and celebrities’ bodies being dissected in the media. And now, many of us are also parenting or playing important roles in the lives of school-aged children and trying to help them have healthy relationships with their own bodies. […]

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