Parenting: Teenager addicted to being healthy
Jul 1, 2026 · 17 min · 7 segments
Child Psychotherapist Joanna Fortune joins Seán Moncrieff to answer your parenting questions…
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Seán MoncrieffHost
Jul 1, 2026 · 17 min · 7 segments
Child Psychotherapist Joanna Fortune joins Seán Moncrieff to answer your parenting questions…
Joanna FortuneGuestSeán MoncrieffHost
Just going back to the first question we got about the 17-year-old into fitness in the gym and the cutting and the bulking up.
One person says, I had a similar issue with my daughter and an obsession with going to the gym and what she eats.
And I wonder, is that part of the thing? They bulk up and you know the way like when, you know, in Hollywood, if they have to do a topless scene, they don't drink water and stuff like that.
show, though, how the whole narrative has always been about girls and food and girls and food.
Actually, even in my clinical practice, because I happen at the moment to be working with some teenage boys, body conscious, body awareness, body esteem is such an issue for teenage boys.
about healthy body image, healthy self-esteem, because they're very susceptible and vulnerable to all those influences.
And don't forget, they're watching TV shows where everyone has their tops off and they're all, you know, they've all obviously prepped for going in and thinking of reality shows, the Love Islands and all of that that are on.
Also, a lot of shows that would be marketed at teenagers have, you know, 30 year old actors playing 16 year olds with adult bodies.
And if you're a kid going, oh, am I supposed to look like that? It does put a lot of pressure on them.
So it is, you know, there's a balance between being healthy and being fixated.
Just going back to the first question we got about the 17-year-old into fitness in the gym and the cutting and the bulking up.
One person says, I had a similar issue with my daughter and an obsession with going to the gym and what she eats.
And I wonder, is that part of the thing? They bulk up and you know the way like when, you know, in Hollywood, if they have to do a topless scene, they don't drink water and stuff like that.
show, though, how the whole narrative has always been about girls and food and girls and food.
Actually, even in my clinical practice, because I happen at the moment to be working with some teenage boys, body conscious, body awareness, body esteem is such an issue for teenage boys.
about healthy body image, healthy self-esteem, because they're very susceptible and vulnerable to all those influences.
And don't forget, they're watching TV shows where everyone has their tops off and they're all, you know, they've all obviously prepped for going in and thinking of reality shows, the Love Islands and all of that that are on.
Also, a lot of shows that would be marketed at teenagers have, you know, 30 year old actors playing 16 year olds with adult bodies.
And if you're a kid going, oh, am I supposed to look like that? It does put a lot of pressure on them.
So it is, you know, there's a balance between being healthy and being fixated.
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