FIGURE 10.1 • Body Image Distortion With respect to body image, women with anorexia may simply represent an extreme end of “normal” distortions; many other women do not assess their bodies accurately (Thompson, 1990). Here IDEAL is the average figure that women rated as ideal. ATT MEN (“attractive to men”) shows the average figure that women rated as most attractive to men, whereas OTHER illustrates the average figure that men selected as most attractive. THINK depicts the average figure that women thought of as best matching their own, and FEEL depicts the average figure that women felt best matches their own.
Source: Larry Pasman, J. Kevin Thompson, International Journal of Eating Disorders Copyright © 1988 Wiley Periodicals, Inc., A Wiley Company.