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Woman's Hour

Body image. Caring for an abuser. Bafta lookahead. Mrs Sri Lanka Beauty pageant controversy

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

A parliamentary report into body image has just been published. The Women's and Equalities Committee has been looking into why so many people feel dissatisfied about the way they look. They did a survey which said that 61% is adults and 66% of children feel bad about how they look most of the time. They wanted to find out whether certain groups are most at risk at poor body image and looked at the impact of social media, advertising, diet culture as well as racism and misogyny. We hear from Caroline Nokes MP chair of the committee. Tatyana Findlater who's 21 and has visible burn scars who gave evidence to the Committee and Dawn Estefan a psychotherapist who works with black women's groups to discuss various issues including body image.

A fight broke out on the stage of the latest Mrs Sri Lanka Beauty pageant last weekend because the winner was accused of being a divorcee. The competition is open only to women who are married and NOT divorced. Why has this beauty pageant received so much media attention and scrutiny? Kanchana N Ruwanpura is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Gothenburg, in Sweden and a Fellow at the Centre for South Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

The 2011 Census found that 6.5 million people in the UK are carers and provide unpaid care by looking after an ill, older or disabled family member, friend or partner. It found that women are more likely to be carers than men, with 58% of carers being female and 42% male.

But what if your relationship with the person you're caring for involves a history of abuse?

And a look ahead to this year's BAFTA's with Edith Bowman.

Presenter Anita Rani Producer Beverley Purcell

Transcript

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Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Womons Hour from BBC Radio 4.

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Good morning, we made it to another Friday. Welcome to Woman's Hour. How do you feel about the way you look?

0:47.0

The Women's Under Quality Commission have been looking into body image and found that 61% of adults and 66% of children felt bad

0:55.2

about how they looked most of the time. Is this you? How do you feel when you look in

1:00.0

the mirror and what's fueling all this insecurity. Maybe you're worried about your

1:04.8

child and the lengths they're going to to look beautiful, whatever that may mean,

1:08.9

and who is setting the standard of beauty that we're all trying to achieve.

1:13.2

The report has suggested scrapping BMI, the body mass index as a measure of health

1:17.8

as it contributes to eating disorders and also suggests we have a more diverse

1:22.1

representation in advertising. I'd like to know

1:24.9

what you think about this. Joe's already tweeted in to say for clothes shops

1:29.0

to provide a wider variety of shapes so the clothes fit properly no matter what size or shape.

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She says I'm less likely to comfort eat when I'm in clothes that feel comfortable and are flattering.

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