How Does Body Image Affect These 100 Women? | The One

a lot of us wonder how others perceive our bodies and we're constantly comparing ourselves and our body types today we're asking a hundred women to decide which person here has the best body every single person here submitted a full body photo for our online community to rank only one woman was voted best body let's see if they can find the [Applause] one for this round the people who believe they ranked in the bottom 10 must exit when you do leave please exit by pressing the counter and steppin

g aside your time starts now I honestly wish that society's viewing of like body types didn't change back from like the Renaissance my body shape is so like godest shape somebody will want me to pose for their painting and Theiss you know what I mean I did feel confident going in the reason as to why is because I do have a more sought-after body type I have worked for my body but however I will not deny the fact that genetics are heavily involved also when it comes to the society ranking US I've

had a lot of comments saying that people would buy my body or people do buy my body so when it comes to that specific thing I felt very confident like I don't know that I necessarily feel so confident like oh I have the best body but I do know like objectively do I get attention like I know I do so there's like a certain like objective to like what I think I don't know uh I'm Jennifer um can you look at me just the camera it's right next to me where what this one oh okay hi I'm Jennifer when I

got when I first got here and I saw that everybody was I was pretty much the oldest one here I felt really out of place not necessarily insecure but just the first feeling was just I don't belong here so when I was younger I I had like no curs I like super people call me anorexic or bulimic and that's like not good in like the black community right you want to be like thick right you want to be curvy you want something people grab on but like as I've gotten older I have gotten hervier uh Sophie

I saw that you just left do you want to kind of explain why or share anything about that yeah I've had a very tumultuous relationship with my body I thought I could do this category but the moment before we started filming like I just I started shaking and I realized I was just like I don't really know what I look like to other people and the idea of like talking about that was like a little anxiety inducing so that's why I was just kind of like I'll be the first one out like I just kind of want

ed to set this one out although it's very tempting to want to give in to this and open this envelope because that's something I'm so used to do is comparing myself to others I am going to make the active decision to not look at it because I don't think it'll do me any good today so I'm not going to open this oh my God I think I look great and I'm so thankful for what my body can do which is really help me practice body positivity like mobile I'm standing here I can walk I can hike I can I can sw

im so grateful for it but I know Society doesn't view me that way they view me as like oh put down the burger and go to the gym and it's like you don't know what I'm doing in my personal life Sam I saw that you just left can you tell us why you did uh yeah so I don't necessarily feel like I fit into the standard of beauty that uh people might perceive is like attractive um so I see where I have some qualities but others I don't when I look around this room I see all like the beautiful attributes

of every single like woman that is here when I was uh growing up I had very poor self-image and in high school I actually like used to keep a mental list of people around me of their attractiveness and how I rated on that scale and I always rated myself super low and I noted that it was extremely um detrimental to my like physical and mental health and I felt like uh I've gotten really good about if something starts to trigger you you need to walk away so I felt uh inclined to step back so that

I could let everyone else have you know the stage to you know rank themselves my modeling agency like first like they they my curves I have curves so I have to be a Curve Model I have to be more plus-sized some agencies want me to gain more weight cuz they're like saying like I want your curves to show more and if I were the exact opposite lose no matter what because I have a and I could never be's considered AAL it's either curve or normal like Jennifer can you tell us about your thoughts of y

our body image through divorce if you feel comfortable oh my yeah yeah I'm a open book um so it's not just the divorce it's more just having to be an acceptance as you get older cuz it's not I was talking to the girls it's not just like how big you are it's like I look in the mirror and I'm like holy there's there's wrinkles there or like my arms and it's just like and how men perceive me and so it's more like that and my my ex had said to me at one point it doesn't matter what you look like any

more at your age and that's crazy and I don't know if he meant it like good but there was too many other things that just still you know oh no he probably did mean it because men get praised for aging and women their value goes down I can I read people really well and so I'm like it was just this constant mirror you know or like going in the store now single and when I was younger men actually looked at me now I'm invisible I didn't realize how much I I used to get hit on or I used to get looked

at or just you know attention and almost that validation and it just has like altogether stopped and like I'm putting myself out there and putting myself out there and which is great but it's just you know or even the last two years cuz I've gained weight with menopause and when I see people who haven't seen me they're used to my old body and the look of disappointment or the look of surprise when I see people is just it's it doesn't feel good you know and so for the body image thing too I wasn

't just thinking like like most people were about weight I was thinking about wrinkles I was thinking about this bad haircut I just accidentally got I was thinking about like more just you know that and then if it's being judged by Society I was like I'm out first you know just because I I haven't had a lot of confidence in that realm welcome to round two in this round we're asking you to leave if you believe your body is in the bottom 50 so that means 40 people need to leave you guys have 5 min

utes to leave the group your time starts now I feel like I have been blessed genetically but at the end of the day when I went to college and I gained 40 lbs I was like I was the one that had to bring it back you know and I feel sometimes guilty for like expressing this in a way but I don't want to do that because at the end of the day like especially when it comes to like my content creation I've been hurt very deeply because I thought I was putting out content that people would IDE like people

would aspire to be and then all I got was men just being like so dirty and it's like I didn't expect that and now I'm trying to you know like change I'm trying to be more intentional with my content but it just sucks like it just sucks just like growing up like people were always telling me like you're so skinny you need to eat but I was eating and I was like happy but that made me feel like insecure especially from being a dancer and then now that I'm grown like I kind of grew into my body and

I have a more mature build and now people are like oh you're so curvy like ooh body and I just don't know how to feel anymore cuz like people went from calling me a bone to like calling me Curry so I feel like media is like also just like brainwashing everyone I think about my arms every single second of the day people literally risk their lives to have your type of body EXA this body people go and build it and they're real everything is there's no like I've not done anything done I think I've

grown so much more confident in how I look at my body now which is why I was able to be confident in the fact that I'm at least top 10 I've struggled a long for a long time with like my way and how I look and my proportions and whether my proportions are correct but I've come to a place where I I love every bit of proportion every angle of my body now yeah I I I think my body is beautiful but my main thing about just having a big bigger body um it's really that I'm always going to be negatively

perceived cuz like growing up I was pretty skinny and like never had to think about my weight I could eat whatever I wanted never thought about it but then I hit like 1920 and I just started gaining weight every day I'm frustrated with myself I did 10 years ago have a really really bad eaing disorder when I was in high school and I almost died and it's not something that I feel like gets validated very often because people like think it's like such a non-issue to be worried about being too skinn

y I think I have a pretty good sense of self-awareness and I know that I'm not necessarily what Society deems as beautiful or has an ideal body type I don't think that's a reflection of me though and how I view myself so if it were a matter of who's the most confident in their body type I would have stayed all the way to the end but it's about how other people perceive us and I just know realistically that there's obviously trolls online and people in America just have a different Viewpoint of p

lus-sized women so I decided to leave pretty early on um I mean I'm not surprised I think I submitted a bikini photo so I knew I was showing everything that I have um it's what I expect it's you know Society standards and it's I'm not most people's ideal body type and I think that's fine um I think a lot of men vote in this also and I have a fiance and I'm a lesbian so I don't really care what they think oh Jesus beautiful it's going to be all these views and I'm crying my mama gonna get me I re

ally thought I could have this conversation with y'all cuz I'm really a confident person to my definition I go out in the world confident knowing that I'm a child of God and I love people but my relationship with my body is Tainted and I'm a dancer and not I express that when like through movements and sematic exercises that I love to move but I am a victim of assault and rape and I have more of a relationship with My Soul than I do with my body so to stand here and y'all be like girl my boobs a

re this and my butt is this I don't know I really have no clue like I'm in the mirror but I'm not really in the mirror so I just admire all of y'all for being able to acknowledge your beauty cuz I know it's here cuz y'all see it but the acknowledgement comes from the internal so I just love that y'all are so open cuz it challenges me to go home and like inter so I love y'all I can't recall even saying a word in the circle at all um I had like a hyper confidence before walking into the room like

this is going to be easy I can pretend and I just couldn't get myself to muster out a single word or answer a single question I I walked away because I knew that I didn't have a relationship with my body because I couldn't even pretend that I did conf with my body okay well I'm going to open it because I think that why not I'd be wondering forever right um so what it's it's 75 so I was ranked 75th so I wasn't in the bottom 10 okay well that's nice I feel like if I would have highlighted my boobs

or like done something like that or maybe it would have been different but I really didn't want to do that because I feel like nowadays that's all I get attention for but I am appreciative of this because that's cool cuz I saw the beautiful women here and there was they were all young young young young so I'm like right away I'm like I'm definitely in the bottom 10 because yeah there's no doubt about it but like so cool thank you we have 1 minute left and we still need eight people to leave so

those are the facts so eight people you got to get out I wouldn't be doing this so five more welcome to round three hey quick question is it easier for you to build emotional intimacy or physical intimacy with other people in other words are you more emotional or physical not really sure take the love print assessment on the nectar app to find out you might surprise yourself now we're left with people who believe they have the top 50 most attractive bodies in the entire room however for this nex

t round round we're asking you to leave unless you believe you have one of the top 10 best bodies so another 40 people have to leave your time starts now well you're talking about how you work out and I see those [Applause] abs your work is stay off I love how petite you are I just want to put you in my pocket smile thank you thank you so much I feel like everyone was like well I'm like thin I'm like okay realistically in a thousand strangers voting they probably want like the curvier girl I thi

nk some someone with a small waist but but skinny but thick okay I actually want to say that I love that we're all melanated and we're all different shades and it's all beautiful I'm trying to feel better about myself and like gain strength and just not compare myself to others cuz I feel like a lot of us have even said it it's just like we don't feel confident because we don't think someone else is going to vote for us and it's it's like well you should think that you're just just vote for your

self I feel like if anything today should tell you that you should go into model day you have the height you have you have the heights you have the body so how's everyone feeling is anyone decided if they're going to leave this round I'm going to leave I have decided and I've decided only because I am still finding that love again that I had for my thick and Cy body and I think definitely I need to get back to that cuz that's when I was my happy is and that's my bravest and I want to be in the e

ntertainment industry I'm a Broadway girly I want to be on Broadway musicals and be perceived and there will always be NE like innately will be negative perception with my body but I have to fight against it cuz yeah you know I like there's something wrong with me okay guys it looks like time's running out so people need to start to leave I love you guys and I was conf the people who were leaving didn't all look the same so then I started to question myself a bit I'm not going to lie I got bulli

ed into staying at some point cuz everyone around me was like so encouraging like you can't leave I got straight up told like you can't leave you better stay and I was like you know what you're right like I I know I know I have a great body I should be confident in it sorry guys we still need 11 people to leave time is running up great thank you I think nine more people have to go right bye guys one more person I'd leave if I could I'd leave if I could there wasn't really a point where I thought

I should leave the game today um because of the fact that Society does like want to have a similar body type of mine and I am very self-aware in that so I did feel comfortable and confident to be there until the top 10 okay now we're down to our final 10 somehow we did it all right everyone we have made it to the final 10 but I just want to say that I'm really impressed with everyone's bravery and that you all are so beautiful so thank you for participating in this you guys are the 10 that beli

eve you have the best bodies in the entire room but we do have to narrow it down to just one person so one by one let's go around the group and discuss who you would like to nominate to be the one I would say that as of right now like I would would vote was all I just know that America they like curvy they like the slim you have both of that so like I feel like no body type is ever right but like if I was to go off of like who people would vote online I would say Wasa as well thank you um I thin

k currently what is you know trendy is kind of a slim thick body type um so I would say s DC way as like an African-American woman it is known to be like curvier and I is kind of more on Trend these days so I'm going to say Sandy yeah I agree with what everybody's saying um I think I would go with Sandi seway just because she has like the perfect body type so you guys are like you guys going to make me cry um I mean I don't really know much about American Body standards I didn't grow up in Ameri

ca what I've learned over time is that American Body standards are constantly changing it's whatever is trending like you guys said the slim thick look is the thing which is also why I think girl I don't know your name Sor what thank you you you have you have that thing I also think that was Soul thank you yeah like I'm trying to look at it as just what is never leaving what is always in and what is always going to be like treasured or valued and that is why I'm going to pick e I've never seen a

body that is just so proportionate so I pick thank you I would say it's was thank you I think like she said um ebony has just a very Timeless physique but I think I just want to shout out every single girl here they're all so beautiful everyone has fit the body standard at least at one point in their life and will continue to it looks like you guys have reached a consensus and the person with the most votes is wasal thank you so everyone else can leave the group and it's time to find out if was

al is the one so how do you feel right now I feel good I feel grateful um I feel appreciated and it's a weird thing being here because in the most most most humble way I could say it makes sense but I also have seen multiple women here that have beautiful beautiful beautiful bodies that are also the standard to what society looks like so that would also all make sense but at the end of the day like I'm just happy to have a healthy body that moves and does what I need to do and I'm just grateful

all right you guys have made your choice it's time to find out if wasal is the one all right wasall if the light turns green you are the one and if the light turns red it means that somebody else in this group is the one let's change the light in three 2 [Laughter] [Applause] [Music] one I think if I look at it do I have to show it okay ah lucky number 13 when I first got here I looked around and I saw a sea of beautiful women with beautiful bodies so I'm grateful to be in the top I'm grateful t

o be in any part of it so was all that means you are not the one so let's find out who the one really is so please step forward s cway [Music] [Applause] so son seway you were just named the one how are you feeling right now I see that you're kind of emotional yeah I mean like a lot of people here I have a weird relationship with my body um I grew up in South Africa majority like there's a lot of white people and I went to a majority white school I wasn't the standard there so that impacted the

way I looked at myself for a long time and I never thought I had like a desirable buddy until I I moved here and when I moved to the US I felt so much love from like black women in the US I stopped thinking about my thighs all the time it used to be such a huge insecurity I have um an Audi and I I used to worry so much about like people being able to see my stomach it was like things like that where I started realizing some of like the things I didn't like about my body were just irrational ther

e were things that were beautiful things that other people were seeking out and instead of looking down on my body I should be grateful for what I have and the fact that I have a functioning body in the first place and I have a body that I know is desirable it's thank you all right thank you so much thank you everyone for being here and thanks so much for watching we'll see you next time on the one give you a hug your H it's very overwhelming so this whole thing is overwhelming kind of the worst

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