“Dying to be Beautiful” (Testimony)
The number of women suffering from eating disorders is on the rise as women across North America buy into the lie that the thinner you are, the more beautiful you are. Find out how you can help guide women into living beautifully rather than dying to be beautiful.
“Dying to be Beautiful” won the short feature category of the 2011 Canadian Christian Writing Awards.
Click here to read “Dying to be Beautiful” by Marcy Kennedy
I appreciated Marcy Kennedy’s transparent, sensitive, and informative article, “Dying to Be Beautiful.” Her insights from personal experience should prove helpful not only to women, but also in sensitizing men. Why men? Whether we are boyfriends, husbands, or fathers, Marcy’s article alerts us to the following. We must be sensitive to (and avoid) the placing of undue psychological and emotional pressure—either intentional or inadvertent—on the women in our lives to conform to an unhelpful and often unrealistic physical ideal, and on external characteristics at the expense of internal character —Peter Black, Testimony reader.
