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by Reena Daruwalla, guest writer for Nancy Hayssen.com

A lot of women feel fat and ungainly and huge and unattractive during pregnancy. Yes there is a feeling of being bloated and heavy and out of shape and off balance. Men however look at it differently: firstly there is an atavistic satisfaction that a man derives from knowing that a woman is carrying his child which he finds a tremendously moving; and secondly men seem to find the more rounded, more womanly shape of a pregnant woman exciting. Many men think of a pregnant woman as the ultimate expression of femininity and a personification of the feminine shape.

Yes pregnancy, childbirth and breast feeding alters our bodies irreversibly, all the things that get added, like Continue Reading…

by Reena Daruwalla, guest writer for Nancy Hayssen.com

The fashion industry and advertisers have been using thin models as the norm to sell us products; basically anything from cards, to cars to condos. The explanation offered is that these are the ideals of beauty; that it is these seeming clothes hangers that men desire that women aspire to be. It has always been the case of the fashion industry that people respond better to ‘thin’, that thin sells more products.

Now a study undertaken in Australia has exploded that myth, that thin models sell more products. Continue Reading…

by Reena Daruwalla, guest writer for Nancy Hayssen.com

Once I started to read about body image issues among young boys, I realized that there a lot more to body images issues among men than may meet the eye immediately. In a survey conducted by Psychology Today, it was found that that 56% of the women and about 40% of the men who responded to their survey in 1997 were dissatisfied with their overall appearance.

As women erroneously believe that a men desire a certain physical ‘ideal’ among women, so also men have certain misconceptions about what women want. Continue Reading…