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Looks Are More Important To Girls Than Life


1.  16% would trade 1 year of their life
2.  10% would trade 2-5 years of their life
3.  2% would trade 6-10 years of their life
4.  1% would trade 21 years or more of their life

The survey conducted at British Universities by Dr Phillippa Diedrichs also discovered that in order to achieve their ideal body weight and shape 26% of the women surveyed were willing to sacrifice at least one of the following:

A.  £5000 from their annual salary (13%)
B.  A promotion at work (8%)
C.  Achieving a first class honours degree (6%)
D.  Spending time with their partner (9%)
E.  Spending time with their family (7%)
F.  Spending time with their friends (9%)
G.  Their health (7%)

The survey results suggest that body dissatisfaction was common among the women surveyed, with 1 in 2 women saying that more needs to be done on their university campus to promote healthy body image.

1.  46% of the women surveyed have been ridiculed or bullied because of their appearance.

2. 39% of the women surveyed reported that if money wasn’t a concern theym would have cosmetic surgery to alter their appearance. Of the 39% who said they would have cosmetic surgery, 76% desired multiple surgical procedures. 5% of the women surveyed have already had cosmetic surgery to alter their appearance.

3. 79% of the women surveyed reported that they would like to lose weight, despite the fact that the majority of the women sampled (78.37%) were actually within the underweight or ‘normal’ weight ranges. Only 3% said that they would like to gain weight.

4. 93% of the women surveyed reported that they had had negative thoughts about their appearance during the past week. 31% had negative thoughts several times a day.

5.  When asked which celebrity has the perfect body Kelly Brook came top of the list.