Distorted body images are common and demonstrate that there is a difference between the body image and the body itself. Anorexics experience their bodies as fat when they are on the edge of starvation; people with distorted body images, a condition called “body dysmorphic disorder,” can experience a part of the body that is perfectly within the norm as defective. They think their ears, nose, lips, breasts, penis, vagina, or thighs are too large or too small, or just “wrong,” and they feel tremendous shame. Marilyn Monroe experienced herself as having many bodily defects. Such people often seek
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an interesting idea for people that believe that may have gender dismorphia.
