All through history, beautiful people have usually gained much more respect. In spite of the fact that the definition of an ideal body shape has changed over time, the value of bodily appearance attraction has remained unvarying. Therefore, everyone usually expresses a degree of concern about physical appearance (Toh, Rossell, & Castle, 2009) and wishes for changes in parts of their body. Such tendencies have turned into an obsessive behavior (Tomas-Aragones & Marron, 2016), which is called body dysmorphic disorders (BDD) in psychiatry and psychopathology textbooks. This mental disorder causes individuals to describe their bodily appearance often as unattractive and ugly. They are obsessed with one or more aspects of their bodily appearance acknowledging their own deformities (Labuschagne, Castle, & Rossell, 2011). Extreme degrees of repetitive behaviors (e.g., constant self-examination of one's bodily appearance) and mental acts (e.g., comparing oneself with others) are regarded as symptoms of BDD (Abramowitz & Jacoby, 2015).
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