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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Hey, tyra your show is amazing i always watch it. keep being like you are because you'so amazing ok well bye thanks for all your tips bye
 
hey tyra im melissa im 17 n im in my 3rd year of high school uhmm soo i do have a problem its actualli my teeth ive always had this problem and know it can be fixed its jus ive kinda been promised my hole life i was goin to get them fixed but time after time theirs been money problems were i cant get them fixed and its just i hate to keep bugging my mom just cuz i know she really cant afford it. Since i can remember ive been made fun of by boys that ive liked, unforuatly some friends, and many class mates. Its gotten to the point were im embaressed to smile, i hate when my mom puts up pictures of me, and even sometimes when i actaully like a picture of me ill blure were im smilling soo i dnt get nasty comments and people dont have to see me smile. Also a few months ago this really cute guy who i always see neighborhood actaully came up to talk to me and i kinda smilled when i saw him comin over to talk to me and as soon as i did he TURNED AROUND AND WALKED AWAY! Tyra its just its been hurtin me for soo long now and for once when i smile i want to feel good and not feel embaressed. im just tired of cryin and not feelin beautiful. i saw what you did for that girl on top model and i would just like the chance to have beautiful a beautiful smile.
 
my problem is im so much bigger then alot of the people i talk to. and i keep telling myself that if i lose alot of weight i will get one of the cute guys at my school. I am a sophomore in high school and i feel like im the fattest girl in my school. you see all the hot georgous girls walking down with their boyfrinds and i get really jealous
 
HI,TYRA ..I LOVE YOUR SHOW YOU SHOW PEOPLE NEVER TO GIVE UP .AND TO BELIEVE IN THEIRSELVES I WISH I WAS YOU...BUT AM SKINNY TO ME I FEEL LIKE AM BONEY ..AND I WISH I HAD MORE MEAT ON MY BONES..BUT BOYS ARE ALWAYS LIKE LOOK AT HER SHE HAS A PHAT BUTT ..AND I WANNA BE THE ONE THEIR TALKING ABOUT LOLZ...AND SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE AM UGLY BUT MY BOYFRIEND SAYS AM PRETTY..BUT I LOOK IN THE MIRROR AND DON'T SEE IT.BUT EVERYBODY HAS THEIR GOOD AND BAD DAYS ...BUT I REALLY REALLY HATE MY NOSE ..IT'S LIKE A GERMAN NOSE OR SOMETHING ..TO ME IT'S BIG BUT EVERYBODY ELSE SAY'S IT ISN'T...BUT I THANK YOU FOR BELIEVING IN MY SELF ..I WANNA BE JUST LIKE YOU ..YOU ARE FABLOUS AND FIERCE..AND AM 17 BY THE WAY LOLZZ ..TALK TO YA LATA
 
my problem is that im too skiny. i mean you guys wanna be skiny and im sitting here wishing i had some of your meat.its easy to dress up and make yourself look amazing but the problem starts when you hit the road and someone just say stuff to make you think you dont look good. i never ever look in mirror when im out.only when im home.lol.help Tyra.
 
My story is that I am a senior in high school and that at the end of the school year, last year I weighted 185 and over the summer I started to walk more but my eating habits did not change. Now starting my senior year I weight 140. I also moved recently to block island RI from East Providence RI. it was a big change for me. Even though I lost all that weight I still don't feel beautiful. I watch your show everyday after school and I am a BIG fan of yours
 
please keep up with making young girls feel good about themseleves. I think its so sad that girls my age really feel that way. my two best friends always go to the gym. unfortunately they dont get very big results. leading them to constantly complain about how they cant loose weight and how they dont like themselves. one of them even told me she sometimes wishes she could die. its so hard trying to get them in a good mood sometimes. and the worst part is that they see me when i go to the gym and loose weight in a matter of days. its horrible how they look down on themselves. i even wish i could trade places with them sometimes..
 
i am like everyone of you i think that i am uglyand i am a large size right know and some times you feel like you don't really look pretty with anything that you put on it like i have to look in the larger size asile will everyone is looking in the good size asile and evryone is okay with it body type and you want to lose all the weigh fast because you want to fit in those clothes i know how you feel right now i am having a selfsteem issue going on and it feels awful that sometimes you have to feel that way well thankyou people to make me feel a little bit better about my body type i think that really matters what is in the inside not the outside well bye.............
 
I feel like sometimes i'm ok lookin and sometimes im ugly.Im not aloud to use makeup so im stuck with clothes.I do my best.All of my friends are skinny and im not.
 
Tyra! wow u are soooo right about dressn' to impress... on my "fat days" i wear my adidas sweats that do not flatter my figure what so ever! i feel like im dress'n for the gym but faking it b/c i never do go to the gym! i need to start dressing pretty again!
 
Tyra! your so right about everything you said. but there are days where i look at other people and wish i had their figure rather than my own. Its hard growing up in a society where all u see is skinny ungreatful people who dont appriate what they have.
 
tyra u r not a teen but u du always make scence and are right!! i do to most of the time think i am the most ugly girl i try to dress nic eand luk pretty but i c my self in the mirror and i just cant stand my self
 
tyra, you are sooo right. i know how sometimes i feel like i am the ugliest girl in school but i have to make myself look pretty. thanks for making me realize that. YOU ROCK TYRA!!! i would so be on your show. love, kamden
 
These tips are good and true because wearing clothes that do not fit only makes the situation worse...your clothes and style should be a reprsentation of you...



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