Justin Bieber disses Prince William's thinning hair: Lets talk male body image

Modern Parenthood

Justin Bieber's youthful diss of Prince William's thinning hair is a window on increasing male body image anxiety. A British study suggests men are fast catching up to women in self-image concerns, finding that 38 percent of men surveyed said they would sacrifice at least a year of their life in exchange for a perfect body.

By ,Correspondent / August 8, 2012

Britain's Prince William, left dissed by Justin Bieber this week for having thinning hair watched swimming finals at the London Olympics with wife Kate on Aug. 3.

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When Justin Bieber fretted aloud to the British media over Prince Williams thinning hair this week, what some might see as the cheap shot heard round the world, it served to focus us on the more serious issue of what prompted him to make it a growing litany of ad-d! riven male body image issues.Mr.Bieber is quoted in the British magazine Rollacoaster as saying of the Princes thinning hair: I mean, there are things to prevent that nowadays, like Propecia. I don't know why he doesn't just get those things, those products. You just take Propecia and your hair grows back. Have you not got it over here?

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Lisa Suhay, who has four sons at home in Norfolk, Va., is a childrens book author and founder of the Norfolk (Va.) Initiative for Chess Excellence (NICE) , a nonprofit organization serving at-risk youth via mentoring and teaching the game of chess for critical thinking and life strategies.

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