Do you love what you see when you look in the mirror?

Hollywood and the fashion, cosmetics and diet industries work hard to make each of us believe that our bodies are unacceptable and need constant improvement. Print ads and television commercials reduce us to body parts — lips, legs, breasts — airbrushed and touched up to meet impossible standards. TV shows tell women and teenage girls that cosmetic surgery is good for self-esteem. Is it any wonder that 80% of U.S. women are dissatisfied with their appearance?

Women and girls spend billions of dollars every year on cosmetics, fashion, magazines and diet aids. These industries can't use negative images to sell their products without our assistance.

Together, we can fight back.

NOW Foundation Announces Love Your Body Poster Contest Winners
View the 2009 winning poster entries, send an e-card with the designs, and learn more about entering your own submission.

Love Your Body: Campus and Community Actions
Check out some new and fun ways to talk about body image and self-esteem, including action ideas of all shapes and sizes in our new Love Your Body action kit!

Love Your Body 2010 Poster Contest
The National Organization for Women Foundation is hosting a poster contest to celebrate the Love Your Body Campaign. The grand prize winning poster will be used as part of a national campaign to challenge the media's use of violent, drug-addicted, starved, surgically-enhanced images of women and to fight against industries that profit from women’s dissatisfaction with their bodies. The deadline is December 1, 2009!

Take a Look at the 2009 Love Your Body Calendar
The 2009 Love Your Body Calendar features unique art from the Love Your Body Campaign, health facts for women and ideas for action. Order online!

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Sex, Stereotypes and Beauty:
The ABCs and Ds of Commercial Images of Women

This presentation illustrates and describes how advertisers and the media enforce unrealistic beauty standards, sexual ideals and gender stereotypes that girls and women are expected to follow. What is the impact of these images, and what can YOU do? Find out.