Teaching girls how to love their bodies

Author Dara Chadwick explains

Updated: Wednesday, 10 Jun 2009, 10:03 AM EDT
Published : Wednesday, 10 Jun 2009, 10:03 AM EDT

More than 40 percent of girls in first through third grade want to be thinner. And 80 percent of ten year olds are afraid of being fat.

But at such a young age, where does that fear come from?

Author Dara Chadwick of the book, You'd Be So Pretty If...joined The Rhode Show to help us understand more.
 

         
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