How Does Body Image Affect These 100 Women? | The One

Many of us wonder how others perceive our bodies and we constantly compare ourselves to our

body

types. Today we ask a hundred

women

to decide which person here has the best

body

. Every single person here submitted a full-body photo for our online survey. the community to rank only one woman was voted best body, let's see if they can find the right one for this round. People who think they placed in the bottom 10 should leave when you leave. Please exit by pressing the counter and stepping aside. Your time begins now. Honestly, I wish society's view of similar body types hadn't changed since the Renaissance.

My body shape is so close to the most divine that someone will want me to pose for their painting and Theiss, you know what I mean? I felt confident walking into the The reason why is that I have a more sought after body type. I have worked for my body but yet I will not deny the fact that genetics is also very much involved when it comes to the classification of US society. I have had a lot. from comments saying that people would buy my body or that people buy my body, so when it came to that specific thing I felt very confident, like I don't know, I necessarily feel as confident as, oh, I have the best body, but yes I know.

Objectively, I get attention, like I know I do, so there's a certain objective similar to liking what I believe, I don't know, uh, I'm Jennifer, can you look at me? Only the camera is right next to me, where is it? one oh okay hi it's Jennifer when I first got here and I saw that everyone was. I was practically the oldest here. I felt really out of place, not necessarily unsafe, but the first feeling was no. I belong here so when I was younger I didn't have dogs. I like super people. They call me anorexic or bulimic and that's not good in the black community. but as I got older I became more secretive, uh Sophie, I saw you just left, do you want to explain why or share something about that?

Yes, I've had a very tumultuous relationship with my body, I thought I could do it. this category, but the moment before we started filming I started shaking and realized it was like I really don't know how I look to others and the thought of talking about it was a little anxiety-inducing. That's why I thought I'll be the first one out, that I just wanted to put this out there, although it's very tempting to want to give in to this and open this envelope because it's something I'm so used to. to do is compare myself to others I'm going to make an active decision not to look at it because I don't think it's going to be of any use to me today so I'm not going to open this oh my gosh I think I look at Great and I'm so grateful for what my body can do, which really helps me practice body positivity like it's a cell phone.

I'm standing here. I can walk. I can walk. Can. I can swim. I am very grateful for that, but I know that society is not. They see me that way, they see me like you left the burger and went to the gym and it's like you don't know what I'm doing in my personal life Sam, I saw you just left, can you tell us why you did that? uh yeah, so I don't necessarily feel like I fit the standard of beauty that people might perceive as attractive. um, so I see where I have some qualities but not others.

When I look around this room I see all the beautiful attributes of every woman who is here. When I was a child, I had a very poor self-

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and in high school I used to keep a mental list of the people around me about their attractiveness and how I rated them. in that sense. scale and I always rated myself very low and I noticed that it was extremely detrimental to my physical and mental health and I felt that I have become very good at that if something starts to trigger you, you should walk away, so I felt I am inclined to take a step back so I can let everyone else know the scenario, you know, they rank my modeling agency first, like them, my curves.

I have curves, so I have to be a curvy model. I have to be bigger. Some agencies want me to gain more weight because they say I want your curves to show more and if I were the exact opposite, I would lose no matter what because I have an AAL and I could never be, curve or normal. Like Jennifer, can you tell us what you think about your body

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through divorce if you're comfortable? Oh yes, yes, I'm an open book. So it's not just about divorce, but more about having to be accepting as you get older because it's no, I was talking to girls, it's not just how big you are, it's like I look in the mirror and it's like holy, there are wrinkles there or like my arms and that's how men perceive me and it's more like That and my ex had told me at one point that it

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n't matter what you look like at your age and that's crazy and I don't know if He meant it, but there were a lot of other things that you still know, oh no, he probably meant it because men are praised for aging and

women

's value diminishes.

I can read people really well and then I'm like I'm a constant mirror, you know, or I like going to the store now single. and when I was younger, men really looked at me, now I'm invisible. I didn't realize how much they used to flirt with me or look at me or just attention and almost that validation and it just has something like that. I've stopped and I'm putting myself out there and putting myself out there and which is great, but you know, or even in the last two years because I've gained weight with menopause and when I see people who haven't seen me, I'm used to my old body. and the look of disappointment or surprise when I see people is that they don't feel good, you know?

And when it came to body image, I wasn't thinking like most people either. they were about weight, I was thinking about wrinkles, I was thinking about this bad haircut I accidentally got, I was thinking about more, you know, and then if he's being judged by society, I thought I'd come out first, you know , just because I haven't had much confidence in that area. Welcome to the second round of this round. We ask you to leave if you think your body is in the bottom 50, which means 40 people have to leave. You have 5 minutes to leave. the group, your time begins now.

I feel like I've been blessed genetically, but at the end of the day, when I went to college and gained 40 pounds, I thought I was the one who had to gain it back, you know, and sometimes I feel like I feel guilty for expressing this in a way, but I don't want to do it because at the end of the day, especially when it comes to creating my content, I've been very hurt because I thought I was putting out content that people would IDE like people would aspire to be and then all I got was that men were so dirty and it's like I didn't expect that and now I'm trying to make a change, I'm trying to be more intentional with my content but it just sucks, it just sucks, like growing up people always told me you're so skinny that you need to eat, but I was eating and I was happy, but that made me feel insecure, especially being a dancer and then now that I grew like I grew into my body and I have a more mature build and now people say oh, you have so many curves like ooh body and I don't know how to feel anymore because like people went from calling me bone to calling me Curry, so I feel like the media is like brainwashing everyone too.

I think about my arms every second of the day, people literally risk their lives to have your body type EXA this body. people go and build it and they're real, everything is, it's not like I haven't done anything. I think I'm a lot more confident now in how I see my body, so I was able to be confident in I've struggled for a long time with the fact that I'm at least in the top 10, like my way of being, my looks, my proportions and whether my proportions are right, but I've gotten to a place where I love everything. of proportion in every angle of my body now, yes, I think my body is beautiful, but the main thing about having a larger body is that I will always be perceived negatively because when I was a child I was quite skinny and like never before.

I had to think about my weight. I could eat whatever I wanted. I never thought about it, but then I came around in about 1920 and started gaining weight every day. I'm frustrated with myself. I did it 10 years ago. I had a really bad eating disorder when I was in high school and I almost died and it's not something that I feel is validated very often because people like to think that it's not a problem to worry about being too thin. I think I have a good sense of self-awareness. and I know that I am not necessarily what society considers beautiful or have an ideal body type.

However, I don't think that's a reflection of me and how I look, so if it were a question of who is more confident in their body. I would have stayed until the end, but this is about how other people perceive us and I know realistically that there are obviously trolls online and that people in America have a different view on plus size women, so I decided leave quite early. in um, I mean, I'm not surprised, I think I sent a photo in a bikini, so I knew I was showing everything I have, um, it's what I expect, you know, society's standards and I'm not the kind of ideal body for most people and I think.

Okay I think a lot of men vote on this too and I have a fiancé and I'm a lesbian so I don't really care what they think oh Jesus beautiful it's going to be all these opinions and I'm crying. Mom is going to understand me. I really thought I could have this conversation with all of you because I am really a confident person by my definition. I go out into the world confident knowing that I am a child of God and I love people, but my relationship with my body is Tainted and I am a dancer and I do not express it when through movements and sematic exercises I love to move but I am a victim of aggression and rape and I have more relationship with My Soul than I have with my body to be here and be like a girl, my breasts are this and my butt is this.

I don't know, I really have no idea that I'm in the mirror, but I'm not really in the mirror, so I admire you all for being able to recognize your beauty because I know it's here because everyone sees it, but the recognition comes from the internal, so I love that they are so open because it challenges me to go. at home and I like inter, so I love them all. I don't remember even saying a word in the circle. um, I was very confident before I walked into the room, like this was easy. I can pretend and I just could.

I couldn't say a single word or answer a single question. I walked away because I knew that I didn't have a relationship with my body because I couldn't even pretend that I did have a conversation with my body, okay? I'm going to open it because I think why not, you'd always be wondering, right? So what is it? It's 75, so I was ranked 75th, so I wasn't in the bottom 10. Okay, that's good. I feel like if I had highlighted it. my breasts or I would have liked to do something like that or maybe it would have been different, but I didn't really want to do that because I feel like nowadays that's all I get attention for, but I appreciate it because it's cool because I saw the beautiful women here and there, they were all young, young, young, so I immediately thought it was definitely in the bottom 10 because yeah, there's no doubt about it, but cool, thanks, we have 1 minute left and we still need eight people to leave, like this that those are the facts, so eight people you have to leave.

I wouldn't do this, so five more are welcome to round three. Hey, quick question, is it easier for you to build emotional or physical intimacy with other people, in other words, are you more emotional or physical? I'm not really sure. Take the Love Impression Assessment on the Nectar app to find out what might surprise you. Now we are left with people who believe they have the 50 most attractive bodies in the entire world. However, there is room for this next round, we ask that you leave unless you think you have one of the top 10 bodies, so another 40 people have to leave.

Your time starts now, well, you're talking about how you work out and I see. those abs your job is not to do them I love how small you are I just want to put you in my pocket Smile thank you, thank you very much I feel like everyone was saying well, I'm thin, I'm fine, realistically out of a thousand. strangers who vote probably want like the curvier girl. I think someone with a small but thin but thick waist. Well, actually I want to say that I love that we are all melanated and we all have different shades and everything is beautiful.

I'm trying to feel better about myself and gain strength and just not compare myself to others because I feel like a lot of us have even said it, it's like we don't feel safe because we don't believe that anyone else is going to do it. vote for us and it's like, well, you should think you're just voting for yourself. I feel like if anything today I should tell you that you should go into model day you have the height you have you have the heights you have the body So ​​how

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everyone feel? Has anyone decided if they are going to leave this round?

I'm leaving. I've decided and I've decided only because I'm still finding that love again that I had for my thick body and Cy and I.I think I definitely need to get back to that because that's when I was happy and that's my bravest and I want to be in the entertainment industry. I'm a Broadway girl. I want to be in Broadway musicals and be perceived and there will always be NE innately. There will be a negative perception with my body, but I have to fight against it because yes, you know I like it, there is something wrong with me, okay guys, it seems like time is running out, so people have to start leaving.

I love you guys and I was making people angry. The ones leaving didn't all look the same, so I started to question myself a little. I am not going to lie. At some point I was bullied into staying because everyone around me was so encouraging like you can't leave. They directly told me that you can't leave, you better stay and I said: "You know what you're right about." I know, I know I have a great body. I must have confidence in it. Sorry guys, we still need 11 people to leave. Time is ticking great thank you I think nine more people have to go bye guys one more person I would leave if I could I would leave if I could there really wasn't a point where I thought I should quit the game today um due to the fact that at the Society likes to have a similar body type to mine and I am very aware of that, so I felt comfortable and confident to be there until the top 10, well now we are in our final 10. somehow we did it right, we all made it to the final 10, but I just want to say that I am really impressed with everyone's bravery and that you are all so beautiful, so thank you for participating in this, you are the 10 that I think You have the best bodies in the entire room, but we have to limit it to one person, so, one by one, let's go around the group and discuss who you would like to nominate to be the one I would say is right.

Now, I would vote, that's all I know, they like curves, they like skinny, you have both, so I feel like neither body type is right, but if I had to say who people would vote for. online I would also say Wasa, thanks um. I think currently what you know is in fashion is a thin thick body type um so I would say DC style as an African American woman is known to be curvier and I. she's more fashionable these days so I'm going to say Sandy, yes I agree with what everyone says. I think I would choose Sandi Seway just because she has the perfect body type, so you guys are like you.

Make me cry um, I mean, I really don't know much about American body standards. I didn't grow up in the United States. What I've learned over time is that American body standards are constantly changing, it's whatever's hot, like you guys said, thin. The thick look is the thing, which is also why I think, girl, I don't know your name. So thank you, you have, you have that thing. I also think it was Alma, thank you, yeah, like I was trying to see it as just. what never leaves, what is always inside and what will always be treasured or valued and that is why I am going to choose e.

I have never seen a body that is so proportionate, so I choose thank you, I would say. It was thank you, I think like she said, um, ebony has a very timeless physique, but I guess I just want to thank all the girls here, they're all so beautiful, they've all conformed to the body standard at least at one point in time. his life. and I will continue. It seems that you have reached a consensus and the person with the most votes is Wasal. Thank you so everyone else can leave the group. It's time to find out if Wasal is the one.

How do you feel now? I feel good, I feel grateful, I feel appreciated and it's kind of strange to be here because in the most humble way, I could say it makes sense, but I've also seen several women here who have beautiful, beautiful, beautiful bodies that are also the standard . what society is like, that would make sense too, but at the end of the day I'm happy to have a healthy body that moves and does what I need to do and I'm grateful for everything you guys have done. your choice its time to find out if wasal is the one okay wasall if the light turns green you are the one and if the light turns red it means someone else in this group is the one let's change the light in three 2 one I.

I think if I look at it I have to show it, okay? Ah, lucky number 13, when I first got here, I looked around and saw a sea of ​​beautiful women with beautiful bodies, so I'm grateful to be on top, I'm grateful. being anywhere in this so it was all that means you're not the one so let's find out who he really is so please step forward so son seway they just named you the one how are you feeling right now? I see that you're a little emotional, yeah, I mean, like a lot of people here, I have a weird relationship with my body, um, I grew up in South Africa, mostly, like there were a lot of white people and I went to a mostly white school, It wasn't the standard there so that

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ed the way I saw myself for a long time and I never thought I had a desirable friend until I moved here and when I moved to the US I felt a lot of love from of black women in the US I stopped thinking about my thighs all the time.

It used to be such a big insecurity. I have an Audi and I used to worry a lot because people could see my stomach. It was things like that where I started to realize something like that. The things I didn't like about my body were just irrational, there were things that were beautiful that other people sought out and instead of putting my body down I should be grateful for what I have and the fact that I am functioning. body first and I have a body that I know is desirable, thank you, okay, thank you all very much for being here and thank you very much for looking, see you next time, I give you a hug. your H is very overwhelming so this is all overwhelming kind of the worst thank you um it's c I