body confidence

Comfort in skin

Body confidence is comfort and positive regard for one's own physical appearance, regardless of how closely it conforms to cultural ideals.

The term appears frequently in discussions of self-esteem, particularly around weight, shape, and perceived flaws: The campaign promotes body confidence among teenage girls.

Someone with body confidence accepts their body without excessive self-criticism.

Related

skin · curves · embrace · empowerment · beauty · inner beauty · radiant · naked · comfortable · proud · celebrate · strength · flaws · scars · stretch marks · swimsuit · bare · vulnerable

Categories
Opposites
self-perception of physical appearance

body confidencebody shame

Embarrassment about one's physique

self-loathing · body dysmorphia · self-disgust · fat shame

psychological security about physicality

body confidencebody consciousness

Attention to physical self

Family

body, confidence, bodies, bodied, bodily, embody, embodied, embodiment, embodying

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G