TEEN TRUTH: BODY IMAGE Trailer

Regardless of how closely their actual figure resembles their perception, teenagers' body image can affect their self-esteem, eating and exercise habits, relationships with others and ultimately their health. Using the series' signature student-shot style, TEEN TRUTH: BODY IMAGE presents real youths, parents, physicians, physiologists, and an entertainment professional discussing how celebrity, media, sports and peer influences can shape one's body image and ultimately lead to dangerous habits. Teasing and exclusion led Emily to develop an eating disorder and Kayla to binge eat her way to obesity; while Nolan's desire to be bigger, stronger and faster ended in health hazards due to performance enhancing drug use. In the end, this affecting film challenges viewers to think differently about how they see their body image and the body images of others, and ultimately empowers them to find true strength and beauty from within.


TEEN TRUTH: BODY IMAGE is funded in part by:


The Efrain Anthony Marrero Foundation - Vacaville, California
Hopewell Eating Disorder Support Center - Ottawa, Canada
The Kristen Watt Foundation - Stockton, California
The Taylor Hooton Foundation - Plano, Texas


Proceeds from this film will go to help these non-profit organizations in their fight against eating disorders and steroid abuse.

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[cformosa4]

I think theres an imbalance between the focus on anorexia/bulimia and binge eating. I would like to see a video about people who overeat rather than under-eat. more people in the US are overweight, rather than underweightor healthy and i think that overweight teens SHOULD be concerned about their weight for health reasons. make a body image video that interviews overweight teens and why they over-eat. The same media pressures us to undereat also pressures us to overeat.

[teentruthlive]

@cformosa4 have you seen the film? It does focus on that issue. One of the students that filmed for us was dealing with that exact same issue. Once you see the film let us know your thoughts, I think you will be happy to see that we did cover this issue from all angles. And interestingly enough the reason why people over eat is the same reason why they under eat. Same with steroids. It is a self-esteem issue and they are compensating for the way they feel inside.

[saharahottie]

i had a friend who was really cool start doing steroids at the age of 13 and he became, aggressive, he started trash talking about every body, and if somebody tried to stand up for themselves, he would just beat them up. he ended up having no friends at the end of 8th grade, and eventually, somebody socked him in the mouth and shattered his jaw and knocked out his teeth. i think he deserved it, but ever since then, people teas him. its hard to think he used to actually be a good friend...

[king989killers]

when you try to tell people how they should live that is when you make them very angry.

[nomnom646]

@abcgurlieluvs totally agree, I don't give a shit about celebrities in magazines because I know they have private chefs and personal trainers, it's everywhere you look in real life and see beautiful shaped girls that makes you feel shit haha

[nomnom646]

@Princebaldwin21 that's okay as long as you're happy? if you feel good about yourself while doing it then that's a good thing right? it's when people feel inadequate because of the way they look and feel helpless about it

[Casshern1100]

@waldoman7 It is our choices that define who we truly are,not our abilities or appearances.Appearances change throughout time anyway. I like to live by this, aging is inevitable,but growing up is optional. I may make it to 100,but I will always love the goth subculture,style,and music.And you may even see me swinging at the playground one day ;)

[waldoman7]

(cont.)

Today I am lean but muscular, an amateur martial artist. I am largely content with it, but do sometimes miss the innocent appearance of my youth. I am unable to embrace the manly image. Who I am is not determined by hormones that I didn't even have for the first 12 years of my life. How can most people define themselves so completely by something that wasn't originally part of them?

[waldoman7]

.I loved my appearance as a child in every way. I prefered being skinny and fast. I liked being small enough to disapear and weave through a crowd. I thought my face looked cheerful with just the right dash of cool. I rebelled against the macho man image, since the people who sought it were largely arrogant, foolish, and blind to the many weaknesses that their path brought.

As a teen I was both insecure about being small and yet reluctant to bulk up and look like the thing I hated. (cont.)

[lilmisstalksalot18]

Oh my gosh I'm like crying right now.

[Princebaldwin21]

This shit is the fucking truth an I'm a guy. It's like I'm in over my head with this shit like it's the only thing I wanna do anymore.

[nonononoey]

@Hombolicious

It takes time. And during that time you get discouraged especially impatient teenagers then you give up and become worse. It's all a long process that you can't do alone without support of those around you. But, it's always too hard to ask for help on looking "better" from a person who looks.. "better".

[abcgurlieluvs]

for me it's not the people in magazines that make me feel uncomfortable, it's the people i know, the kids and teenagers in real life that hold themselves up to those unrealistic standards that are so much prettier and skinnier than i could ever be