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As for self-image, ask yourself why you are holding yourself to such high standards. Having such unhealthy standards leads to deadly obsessions- like OCD and eating disorders.
As for Christina Ricci, remember that she's an actress. Her JOB is to starve, work out, and look like what they want her to. She's admitted that she ate very poorly to get the body that character required. Why should some celebrity set what you should look like?
The best example you can set for your kids is being comfortable in your own skin, as well as a bathing suit.
I know this is all easier said than done. I just got out of a three month stint in a hospital/residential treatment facility for eating disorders. It's a long, rough journey, but in the end, you gotta just look at your body as a house for your soul and personality. Exercise when you can/when you feel like it, and if you got a few days or weeks without, don't sweat too much. In the grand scheme of it all, a few weeks is nothing.
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