Today, many young girls have unhealthy self-images. They think they are too ugly or fat. Some girls are obsessed with losing weight and they have unhealthy eating habits. Having a healthy self-image is very important for leading a happy life. In order to help young girls love themselves as the way they are, Katherine Schwarzenegger, the oldest daughter of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, released a book last month.

Katherine Schwarzenegger wrote the self-help book to encourage young girls to have confidence in themselves and accept who they are. The book is titled Rock What You’ve Got: Secrets to Loving Your Inner and Outer Beauty.

Katherine, who is a student at the University of Southern California, decided to write the book after hearing her young cousins and other girls talk about their troubles while losing weight. “They were only 8 years old, but they were talking about how they don’t want to be fat and how they want to look perfect,” said Katherine.

In her book, she criticizes the pressure society puts on young women to look perfect. “I have to confess that I suffered from low self-esteem as a teenager. I felt fat and ugly. I wasn’t happy with my own appearance in high school and tried various diets,” she said.

However, her parents helped her see she was beautiful the way she was. Thanks to her parents, she could learn how to love herself. She said that now she wants to share her secrets with other girls.

“You don’t have to look perfect to feel beautiful. I really want to correct girls’ perception of that. Images of women in magazines are not real. I want to inform young girls through my book that they shouldn’t try to look like the unrealistic models. I want girls to feel it’s OK to be themselves. I want them to understand that every girl can be beautiful no matter what size and shape she is,” she added.?