Women waste far too much of their lives obsessing over diets, bodies and appearance – energy that could be far better spent ‘taking up space in the world’.
These are the words of actress Jameela Jamil from an interview earlier this month, but it’s a sentiment that is finding support among a growing number of women online.
And study after study suggests she may have a point.
One UK survey of 2,000 women found the average woman checks her reflection around eight times a day, while another put the figure far higher – 34 glances every day, or roughly once every half hour
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