Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to be a woman by watching the older women in their lives.

Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol.

Young people have so many letdowns that people don't realize.

Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young women's lives for the 2 decades I spent in the modeling industry was downright sobering.

Exposing any subject that is unpleasant or controversial means risking judgment and making some people feel uncomfortable.