How can young people ever withstand the endless barrage of unrealistic body images that social media throws at them? The CBC's Hillary Johnson examines what's at stake in her three-part series, "Skin Deep"

CBC Newfoundland Morning

The old saying, "Beauty is only skin-deep" means a person's intellectual, emotional, and spiritual qualities are more important than how they look. But the message probably doesn't get through to many young people because social media floods them with body images they can never live up to. Hillary Johnson's new, three-part series, "Skin Deep, " tells how the toxic influences of diet culture, body trends and more cause teens to struggle for impossible standards, In Part One, Hillary speaks with Chelsea Hudson, a registered psychologist in NL.