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Originally Posted by DanceDiva
I think there is more to this story than just a 13-year old worrying about her shape. I have a 23-year old daughter. At 13, she would have never been exercising with me. And certainly wouldn't have thought it normal to be exercising with a personal trainer. So my first thought is why is this girl wanting to lose a lot of weight and working with a personal trainer? I wonder if her mother is aiding and abetting her daughter into body self-hatred and the long-term repercussions of such.
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Oh diva- you have the right of it. When I was 13 I was just starting to get my womanly curves. A health club had just opened in our small town. Suddenly the comments from my mother were all about how much weight I was gaining and that I needed to "watch it" etc. She drug me to the gym and insisted that if I did not work out I was going to be fat. At 13 I weighed 85 lbs.
My mother had a poor body image of herself and found it convenient to project onto her children.