The Cat & Michelle Show talk about body image & Romantic poetry

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This week Cat and Michelle talk about body image and Romantic Poetry after an encounter with Pam Ayres' new poem about "Fifty Shades of Grey" and also discuss about body image and their expeiriences with body image judgement. The Gaurdian looked into the largest annual survey into the views of the UK’s girls and young women for which has revealed that 36% of seven- to 10-year-old girls say people make them feel like the most important thing about them is the way they look. The Girlguiding Girls’ Attitudes Survey, which saw over 1,500 young people surveyed, also revealed that almost 40% of the same group feel they are not pretty enough, and 25% feel they need to be “perfect”. One in six feel ashamed or embarrassed of how they look.