For Keeps

Join Kathryn Editor Victoria Zackheim and contributing authors Masha Hamilton and Aimee Liu as they discuss For Keeps Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance. "Why is it that with everything women have accomplished, we still struggle with our feelings about our bodies? Perhaps it's because, in our society, body image has become a loaded term. In For Keeps twenty seven gifted authors write personal essays about how body image has colored, changed or enriched their lives…or how life's events have changed their body image. We women often devote boundless effort to beauty and fitness, but usually by fighting our bodies rather than befriending them. So maybe it shouldn't be a surprise that when we face injury, illness, or old age, we are often devastated---in truth, we feel betrayed by our own bodies. For Keeps is more than an acceptance of getting older---it's about accepting who you are, period. Kathryn's new website is http://www.kathrynzox.com/.