Rizza Body Image Case Studies

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Vital Statistics Report in 2013, the average age of women having their first child is 26 years old. Rizza had her first child when she was in her late 20s. She is now thirty-five years old with three children. Before agreeing to do the interview, she mentioned that this is the first time she is ever going to talk about her body after giving birth to her first child. When she was in her early 20s, she was only 120 pounds but when she had her first child, she gained thirty pounds and with that, she couldn’t even look at herself in the mirror. Rizza thinks that she is “fat” and she looks unattractive. She laughed about it while saying, “Why do I even care about how my body looks when I’m already a mother and have no one to impress?” However, after

In Women’s Studies, we covered about body politics in the 1970s. During that time, exercise becomes so popular for women for the reason that they were encouraged to become more toned and muscular. She described a perfect body by saying that a perfect body is a slender body with toned muscles, long legs, small waist, big bust, and wider hips. Even though she thinks that she is fat, she did not go to the gym to exercise or to lose weight because even if she wanted to, she still does not have the freedom to do so because of her busy schedule. She was also asked if girls of today have a good body image and she responded, “I am thirty-five right now and if I don’t even feel good about my body, I think that girls younger than me are struggling with feeling insecure about their body as well.” With those words, she added that younger girls tend to compare themselves to other girls more and therefore they try to achieve the body that those girls have and that is where they start feeling more insecure about their body when they could not reach that