Transcripts: What Your Peers Say
What Your Peers Say Body Image (With Audio Description) (1:48)
Young people talk about the challenge of maintaining a balanced view of their appearance.
Transcript: What Your Peers Say. Body Image
[A boy with brown hair, kicks and bounces a soccer ball, then leans forward as the ball lands on his back]
[Text: What Your Peers Say]
[Text: Danielle] [Danielle, a girl with black hair, holding a black and white umbrella]
Danielle: “I think a lot of it has to do with the media.”
[Text: Jordan] [Kicks ball towards goal]
Jordan: “Young boys my age
[Chats with friend]
and younger are really obsessed with what they look like. And to be honest, I’m one of them.”
[Text: What Your Peers Say about Body Image]
Danielle: “I’ve known people that are obsessed with their body, whether it’s male or female,
[walks down the street]
in terms of dieting more or working out more.”
[Jordan catches a ball]
Jordan: “They look at magazines, and they want that body.”
[Text: Chris] [A young man named Chris fills up a bucket to wash his car]
Chris: “When they see the way that these people are portrayed and they see this information from the media, they begin to feel even worse about themselves than they already feel.”
[Text: Think so as to have a sound mind.” Romans 12:3]
Danielle: “We get so focused on our imperfections sometimes that it’s hard to see past those and see the things that are beautiful about us.”
[She flips through photo album and smiles]
Chris: “When someone looks at a treasure chest, they don’t say, “Oh, the treasure chest is dirty and old on the outside.” They want to know what’s the inside of it. That’s what counts.
[Looks back proud at clean car]
Danielle: “We really all are beautiful, and we all have beautiful things about us, whether it’s internally or externally. Sometimes we just need help seeing those things.”
[Holding her umbrella above her, Danielle walks down a treeline side walk]
[Text: Focus on your inner qualities more than your outer appearance. 1 Peter 3:3, 4. Download the books Questions Young People Ask – Answers That Work, Volumes 1 and 2 at jw.org]
(Logo: Black capital letters JW.ORG inside a white box. Copyright 2013 Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania)
[Disclaimer: The videos are created by Watchtower Bible and Tract Society; however, some of the audio description has been added by independent blind and sighted volunteers to assist those who are blind or have low vision]