Your love-your-changing-proportions guide.

teens_change_body_perception.jpgAdolescence sends your emotions sky-high and your body morphing in and out of different shapes and sizes. Not exactly the easiest time to try and keep posi about your shapely new self. You must remember you're not the only one with wonky body parts and warpy growth spurts. Even the class hottie has her own woes -- her designer jeans are just good at hiding them. Your booty will catch up to your newly long legs, but until then, don't banish yourself to your bedroom. It's hard (at ANY age) to keep your chin up about your figure, but it's possible to rock your "imperfections" until you see them for what they are: the things that make you perfect.

Balanced Beauty
A few extra ounces during "that time of the month" may make you want to fast for days, but that will only make you sick and feel gross when you do finally decide to feed yourself. Instead, eat healthy. Solid meals all day will give you extra energy and will let you feel free to dig into those uber-comforting milk and cookies at the end of the night.

Pump Up the Volume
Not only will exercise quell your "jiggly" worries, it will also get your blood pumping and make you feel better naturally. But don't overdo it -- too much of anything can be a bad thing and exhaust you. Instead, think about things you do regularly that actually can qualify as exercise. Consider how many laps you do around the mall on any given day!

Dress to Impress
The aggravation you feel from having to buy a size larger pants stings mightily -- but it's temporary. The compliments you'll get from working your well-dressed stuff in some made-for-you pants lasts all day. Dress to fit your size and help flatter your figure. One you're strutting it in a fierce outfit, you'll start to feel amazing -- and all the jaws dropping won't hurt either!


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Hi tyra im 13 and i feel like im the ugliest girl in the world my mom tells me im pretty but its not like she can tell me im ugly. Im fat im 210 and im only 5,6 and my sister always gets hit on and it makes me feel why does she have everything and i feel like the friends i have just feel sorry for me can you help me tyra i think you are amazing and you are my rolemodel. I want to be a model but im too fat and ugly to be one.
 
Hey Tyra. I've always been a lot bigger than my friends, height wise and weight wise. I have an awesome boyfriend and i have to admit, quite a few guys like me, but I've NEVER been comfortable with my body. I feel like I am HUGE and that people will judge me about what kind of clothes i wear and how i do my hair or makeup. All of my friends tell me how pretty they think I am and how I have the perfect shape, but I can't ever see it.. Any Suggestions? PLEASE!
 
well i don't really like the way i look. i was always the tall girl and the one that was over weight. when i did lose some weight my family really didn't like the way i looked and they told me i was to small. now that i have put the weight back on and then some they feel im to big. some times i feel OK in my skin. most of the time i don't. my boyfriend tell me all the time that im so beautiful but i cant see it. sometime i think that makes him mad. why cant i see what he see??
 
my name is jasmine robertson and im only 15 years and im struggling with my body people always tell me how beautiful i am but i really don't see it i really don't know what to do i really need help tara please read my letter tara i've been through so much in my life please help me!!!
 
Hey Tyra, I love your show I watch it when I can. I also love America's Next Top Model I think those are probably my two favorit shows. Okay I'm just gonna get to the point, I'm 15 and will be 16 in about 6 days. So I don't like my body and clothes don't always make you feel better when you have friends that seem like they can get the same clothes and make them look even better. I love my friends to death don't get me wrong but I get a little more than jealous of them at times. I mean I don't wanna be as skinny as them, I just want to look as good as them, you know what I mean, I hope that doesn't sound confusing. But they keep telling me they wish they could gain weight but still loose it, and I try to loose it and kind of just stay the same, or go up. It hardly ever goes down. I stopped drinking soda and sugry drinks that helps a lot. Still I need a little help cuz i've had a little less than happy thoughts about my body issue, my friends tell me i'm beautiful and i believe them but when they say they look like crap it makes me wanna punch them in the face cuz they are probably the prettiest girls i have ever seen. But enough is enough i guess. I'm tired of being happy one minute about it and sad the next. PLEAS HELP!!! xoxo cheyenne
 
hay there, im 14 yrs old 15 in two days:) thts not the point though..i was an overwieght child, as i got older i lost some weight everyone was proud but i wasnt,now its pretty much the same i look and feel over weight im like 148 lbs. i hate it! im short so it doesnt go with my body type.. i look weird, i seriously am ugly! i just wish one day i could wake up and see a pretty gurl in the mirror and tht gurl be me.ive gave up caring what others think but i still care what i think..idk. its hard...just wish i was skinny and pretty!eather tht or i need to get over myself.who knows.
 
Im 16 and since i was 3 i have had eating issues. My mom got sick and almost died when giving birth to my sis, so ever since then i eat when im upset. i try and try but cannot break the cycle. sometimes ill think i look ok, but immediatly following that feeling is always my conviction that im not pretty and never will be. im over weight at 200 pounds. im afraid to tell my friends how mch i way cause i think they;\ll call me ugly. so basicly my self esteem has nevr been high. i dont even know what it feels like to have confidence, beaty, to have anything good and i hate it.
 
hi tyra, i have been watching your shows for like ever and im glad that your giving they youth a voice, im 16 and i ve never felt pretty. me being black and white makes it difficult to fit in with my family and freinds, also hard to find my inner beauty and realize that God made me in the image of Him. alot of t.v shows and movies make young teen girls feel so insecure because most of the girls on the shows or movies are beyond beautiful,they seem like barbies! i wish they could see how that affects us teens today. maybe they could try putting average,normal girls going through the same drama. now i can relate to something like that and i bet thousands of other girls would to.
 
hi tyra, i have been watching your shows for like ever and im glad that your giving they youth a voice, im 16 and i ve never felt pretty. me being black and white makes it difficult to fit in with my family and freinds, also hard to find my inner beauty and realize that God made me in the image of Him. alot of t.v shows and movies make young teen girls feel so insecure because most of the girls on the shows or movies are beyond beautiful,they seem like barbies! i wish they could see how that affects us teens today. maybe they could try putting average,normal girls going through the same drama. now i can relate to something like that and i bet thousands of other girls would to.
 
hi tyra, i have been watching your shows for like ever and im glad that your giving they youth a voice, im 16 and i ve never felt pretty. me being black and white makes it difficult to find my inner beauty and realize that God made me in the image of Him. alot of t.v shows and movies make young teen girls feel so insecure because most of the gilrs on the shows or movies are beyond beautiful,they seem like barbies! i wish they could see how that affects us. maybe they could try putting average,normal girls going through the same drama. now i can realte to something like that and i bet thousands of other girls would to
 
hi tyra-i love your show. Im 13, and i dont feel all that great about my body.when i watch your show, i see all these pretty girls and think that im just ugly as heck. i look at my friends, and they have no acne, great curves, great laughs, and a gteat personality. Now, with me, i have acne,real bad acne, and it holds me down. I have only had two boyfriends, because of my acne. I dont value my self enough, and it is so bad that i have literally thought this: -maybe i should kill myself.there would be one less hideuos person in the world-we dont have enough money to get my acne treated.wat can i do?
 
Hi Tyra i really dont feel good about my body....its hard coz my friends have such nice bodies and i do lots of sports which they dont even do,i have 2 addmit i do get very jelous of them...if i eat junk food i get fat and if they eat junk they stay skinny,i get very uncomfortable about myself and i only eat junk every once in a while they eat it all the time....im very unhappy bout myself and my parents dont know,i just pretend im hapi :(
 
I feel like all of these catagories apply to me. Well except for the period one because i havnt even started my period. But its really hard for me to fit in sometimes even though i fit all the requirements of what is in style today. Today people smoke, drink, have SEX and I have to lie sometimes to make myself feel better just so that i can live up to my freinds expectations. I dont have all the money in the world but the money i do get is from selling pot. Since my mom cant really afford to pay for my needs right now, I have to find a way that will benefit myself! I do have 6 other siblings and i dont want to be selfish but i feel like i have to keep my reputation of being "FRESH". Thats not all i wanted to say about this topic but it covers part of it. Hope to hear back! :]
 
hey tyra Im 14 going on 15 and I love myself, but its just dat when some people see me fat but I dnt think Im fat Im big-boned when I was younger I used to get afined, but now that Im older when they talk about me they're not hurting me they hurting theirselves because now of days some gurls might look pretty,cut they are hiding some emotional secert behide everything. Well bye see you later
 
like some other people, im also too skinny, plus im pretty short, i mean not like scary small, but i wish i had some more curves, if you know what i mean. this probably sounds stupid, but when some of my friends talk about going on diets, i guess i sort-of wish i knew what they mean. like i have no idea. its sooo hard to gain weight, losing it is very easy for me. plus sometimes i get a zit here or there on my Body, which is totally disgusting(!!), and i feel reallyyy ugly when that happens. overall, i guess im pretty happy with my body though



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