Bristol, United Kingdom. Thirty percent of women would trade at least one year of their life to achieve their ideal body weight and shape.

Findings from a survey of university women in the United Kingdom highlight that body image issues are not limited to adolescent girls, but affect all women. Moreover, the majority of women surveyed said that more needs to be done to promote positive body image on their university campuses.




Kelly Brook was cited by female survey respondents as having the perfect body.

Born Kelly Ann Parsons (23 November 1979), she is an English entrepreneur, model, movie actress, television host and Playboy model.Dr Phillippa Diedrichs from the Centre for Appearance Research at the University of the West of England, directed the survey. The results show what women would do to achieve their ideal body weight and shape.

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

The survey conducted 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:

• £5000 ($7,093 US) from their annual salary (13%)
  
  
• A promotion at work (8%)
  
  
• Achieving a first class honours degree (6%)
  
  
• Spending time with their partner (9%)
  
  
• Spending time with their family (7%)
  
  
• Spending time with their friends (9%)
  
  
• 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.

• 46% of the women surveyed have been ridiculed or bullied because of their appearance.
  
  
• 39% of the women surveyed reported that if money wasn't a concern they 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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
  
  
• When asked which celebrity has the perfect body Kelly Brook came top of the list.

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