body shame
Discomfort with appearance
Body shame is the distress or embarrassment people feel about their physical appearance, particularly when it doesn't match cultural ideals.
It often targets weight, shape, or specific features: Years of body shame kept her out of swimsuits.
To body shame someone is to criticize or mock their appearance: Tabloids routinely body shame celebrities.
- insecurityUncertainty about oneself
- self-loathingIntense disgust toward oneself
- embarrassmentSelf-conscious unease
- nakedWearing no garments
- mirrorReflective viewing surface
negative self talk · never good enough · ugly · fat · skinny · sucking in · flawed · hiding · disgust · picking apart · uncomfortable · vulnerable · exposed · too much skin · criticism · imperfection · scars · stretch marks
- body culturebeauty standards, physical appearance, self-image, fitness culture, diet culture
- body imageself-perception, self-esteem, curves, musculature, dissatisfaction
- disgracedishonor, disgrace, downfall, stigma, scandal
- prudishnessprimness, priggishness, prissiness, puritanism, stuffiness
- eating disordersanorexia, bulimia, anorexia nervosa, binge eating, bulimia nervosa
body shamebody positivity
Acceptance of all figures
self-acceptance · body confidence · self-love · self-esteem · body neutrality
body shamebody liberation
Freedom from body-based oppression
body, shame, bodies, bodily, bodied, embody, embodied, embodiment, embodying