Bio-Oil
is funding a new body confidence performance projects in schools with
The Body Gossip charity in light of new findings. To summarise:
- 42% of teens worry about being overweight and 25% worry about the size of their breasts
- Teen body worries prevent 1in10 from contributing in class and 15% from taking part in PE classes
- A quarter of teens have been bullied about the way they look, making 1in5 feel ugly and 1in10 have even wanted to self-harm
- The charity Body Gossip is offering schools free Body Confidence Performance Projects funded by Bio-Oil to help improve body confidence amongst teenagers
- Call out for people to share their body confidence advice to form the Body Confidence Performance Projects
Teenagers worry more about their bodies than their exam grades
Bio-Oil sponsors Body Confidence Performance Projects in schools across the UK to inspire a life-time of body confidence
A new survey of teenagers across the UK reveals
that they worry more about their bodies than their grades.
The
concerns are not only that body worries are distracting teens from
their exams; the survey also highlights that the reality is skin and
body worries are preventing
one in 10 from contributing in class, they’re stopping 15% from taking
part in PE classes and they’re making 13% not want to go to school at
all.
The
biggest body concern for teenage girls is being overweight, which is a
worry for two in five; other worries in the top ten body concerns
include size of breasts (25%),
teeth (17%), the size of their bum (16%) and stretch marks (11%).
Further
survey insights show that over a quarter of teens have been bullied
about the way they look, skin and body worries make one in five “feel
ugly” and one in ten
have even wanted to self-harm because of their skin or body worries.
“As we go through life, our perspective on what is important changes. Being overweight is the biggest worry for teenagers, yet our survey of older women shows that looking back, over a quarter wish they’d embraced their figure more. We want to gather this wisdom on a mass scale and share it with people of all ages across the UK” comments Julie Lardieg, Senior Brand Manager for Bio-Oil.
Julie continues
“Your Body Philosophy might be something you wish you’d known when you
were younger, some great advice your mother gave you, or simply your
take on
what matters when it comes to being body confident. My Body Philosophy
is: You only have one skin, take care of it!”
Bio-Oil
will be funding Body Gossip to run a Body Confidence Performance
Project in 20 schools nationwide. Body Gossip is a charity that uses
arts and education to empower
young people to be the best version of themselves.
Body Gossip’s Founder and Director, Ruth Rogers explains
“Low self-esteem due to a lack of body confidence is preventing far
too many young people from fulfilling their potential. It doesn’t just
negatively affect their educational growth in school, it can also
drastically alter a young person’s development in
adult life. The advice collected through the Bio-Oil Body Philosophy
project will become valuable content for the drama sessions and we are
urging people to get involved and share their Body Philosophies so that
we can help make a difference to those body
confidence issues at school.”
How to get involved:
To read the Body Philosophy gallery, feel inspired and share your own words of wisdom, visit:
www.mybodyphilosophy.com
Alternatively, find us on Twitter @BioOilUK and tell us your Body Philosophy using #bodyphilosophy
From 1st June to 31st October you can nominate a school to receive a free Body Confidence Workshop here:
http://www.bodygossip.org/
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