Your Relationship with Reflection

People fall into three camps with mirrors. Some avoid them. Some check obsessively, hunting for flaws. A rare few glance with neutral curiosity — and those people tend to have the healthiest body image.

Here is the twist: body image has almost nothing to do with how you look. It is about how you think and feel about how you look.

Body dissatisfaction has climbed sharply over the last few decades, even though people are not objectively less attractive than before. What changed is the sheer volume of idealized images we scroll past every day.