Even though body image issues are more prominent in teenage girls, many men actually experience negative body image. It is not widely known but body image is what you think you look like which therefore means that it may have no connection at all on your actual appearance.

A person's sense of self is defined by the qualities, abilities, skills, and learned behaviours one has that make him or her feel good about herself. It is how he or she defines herself or himself. These abilities and skills are very important because they are a way to prove people's competence and feel good about themselves. Physical appearances work the same way in that if you look good you feel good and if you do not look good, you do not feel good.

Generally these issues have been associated with pressures of society to live up to an ideal...