Gok Wan bigs up body confidence – at No. 10!
You may have heard about Gok Wan’s fabulous crusade to get body confidence lessons onto the National Curriculum in PSHE lessons. (That’s Personal, Social and Health Education.) Following an unsuccessful attempt to arrange a meeting with education secretary Ed Balls, his quest continued recently when he arrived at Downing Street with a petition containing 45,000 signatures in favour of his proposal.
Accompanied by his fabulous body confidence ambassador Shona, winner of Gok’s Miss Naked Beauty contest, Gok explained that it’s our responsibility to help look after the next generation:
“When I first started filming How to Look Good Naked I had no idea of the body hatred epidemic.”
“Over 70 per cent of teenagers have admitted they have little or no body confidence at all.”The average woman in this country is exposed to over 3,000 images of perfection every week, of air-brushing and re-touching and our teenagers are aspiring to look like these people.
“After five years filming the show I feel confident that a difference can be made. We need to teach the next generation that what we see in the media is not a fair representation of the real body.
I think it’s a brilliant idea. The media is affecting people younger and younger these days so it’s important to speak to young people in their ‘formative’ years to help them grow up happy and confident. Good luck Gok and Shona from everyone at Simply Yours!
Sources here and here.
Gok Wan gets studious!
Tags: body confidence, Gok Wan, Shona Collins
January 21st, 2010 at 3:31 pm
GOK , you are an inspiration all over the world , dont ever stop making woman love who they are no matter what they look like . You are a true lover of humans no matter what . I look up to you .
thankyou
Kat xx
March 7th, 2010 at 2:39 pm
This is such a good idea! One of my best friends has been in hospital for two nearly three years because of anorexia. It has effected me alot and I do worry about her but if we had body confidance lessons in school they could tell you want is normal for growing teens and wat isnt this would prevent anorexia and not feeling confident. One thing that makes me feel less confidant is that i have really sensitive skin so i get little rashes from washing powder no matter what type it is but even just watching your show makes me want to wear a bikini when i go swimming and lovely dresses! Thank you Gok!!!! Xx