Tyra Banks

Our Body Image Pro, Dr. Robyn Silverman on The Tyra Show Oct. 5!

October 2, 2009 by Amy Jussel 3 Comments

October 2, 2009 Many of you know the irony that I’m ‘press phobic’ and camera shy despite a journalism and ad/media background plus a Communications degree, so it always amazes me when people LIKE the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, People Shaping Youth, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: adolescent body image, anorexia, appearance, Ask Dr. Robyn, body bashing, body ideals, body shame, body-positive, bodysnarking, character education, childhood obesity, children, dieting, Dr.-Robyn-Silverman, fat, Fat Haters, fat phobic, health, ideal weight, ideals, Kids, Media, models, objectification, parenting, Photoshop models, plus sized models, Powerful parent, role models, runway models, self-esteem, Sexualization, Sexualization & Body Image, slim, Slim Hopes, stage presence, striving for zero, thin, thin is in, thinspiration, Tufts, Tyra Banks, youth

Influencers, Accountability and the Global Cost to Youth

March 24, 2009 by Amy Jussel 14 Comments

April 7, 2013 Update: This topic will be the opening plenary at the newly rebranded Yth.org public health conference today in S.F., livestreamed here: YthLive.org at 4pm Pacific time/1pm ET.I can't … [Read more...]

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America the Beautiful: An “R” Rated Movie You WANT Kids To See

September 3, 2008 by Amy Jussel 23 Comments

Teens and tweens have heard more raw verbiage on school grounds in any given day than Eve Ensler's little snippet in America the Beautiful that garnered the documentary an ‘R’ rating. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: access to media, America the Beautiful, America the Beautiful documentary, America the Beautiful movie, Amy-Jussel, BABIB, Beauty products, Bigger Stronger Faster, bleaching agents, body loathing, body shame, body-positive, boys, Cancer, Congressman Jim Ramstad, Cosmetics, Darryl Roberts, Dove, Eating Disorders Coalition, eating-disorders, EDC, EWG, Fast Food Nation, Gerren Taylor, girls in Fiji, HR1424, Indie film, Interview with Darryl Roberts, Jackson Katz, Jean Kilbourne, Julianne Moore, Kate Winslet, Killing Us Softly, NEDA, packaging boyhod, Packaging-Girlhood, preteens, pthalates, Reign-of-the-Girl-Child, Revlon, S558, self-esteem, self-worth, So Sexy So Soon, teen girls, Teens for Safe Cosmetics, Tough Guise, Toxic ingredients, tween girls, Tyra Banks