It was my great pleasure to be a part of the MCR Foundation’s “Love Your Body, a Celebration of Healthy Body Image & Positive Self Esteem” event on Thursday, February 25 at the Loose Cannon Gallery. The non-profit foundation works to raise awareness of eating disorders and unhealthy body image, particularly in school age children. This is a terrible problem among children today, and it’s a cause that I am very happy to be able to support.

I believe very strongly that we all have something beautiful about us, and the overwhelming message being sent my the media is the we’re not beautiful and we need to starve ourselves and buy their products in order to ‘fix’ our appearance. That this is done for the sole purpose of making a profit makes it all the worse.

The event featured a partial screening of the documentary America the Beautiful which explores the impact that marketing and super models has on the self-esteem of children. I highly recommend that anyone with young children watch it, and consider how to limit the impact of media on your child.

Images from the event can be viewed in this online gallery.