Help Gok get body confidence on the curriculum

Gok’s fronting a teenage body confidence campaign – and he needs your help.

As part of the upcoming new series of How to Look Good Naked, Gok has charged the winner of Miss Naked Beauty 2008, Shona Collins, with running a petition to parliament calling for a body confidence lesson to be included in all school curriculums.

Sign the online petition now to support this cause and post your comments on the article to let Gok and Channel 4 know what you think. The team is hoping people will sign up in their thousands to help teens grow up with a healthier body image.

“When I first started filming How to Look Good Naked I had no idea of the body hatred epidemic,” says Gok.

“After five years filming the show I feel confident that a difference can be made. We need to teach the next generation that what we see in the media is not a fair representation of the real body.”

Shona has spent the last few months investigating young girls’ body image issues and has been speaking to parents, teachers and teenagers.

“It was shocking to me how depressed and down young girls are about their appearance and body shapes… Girls want the schools to ‘catch up’ with the pressures on teenage lives and address the issues openly. Body confidence issues are one of their biggest worries,” she says.

Later this year the petition will be presented to policy makers at Downing St to try and secure body confidence on the PSHE syllabus.

Find out more at howtolookgoodnaked.com.

Not only this but Shona and Gok Want Your Videos Responses!

Shona and Gok want to know what you think of the idea and what experiences you’ve had with body confidence issues. Upload a video and if Gok and Shona like it enough it might even appear on the show and on the web!

Check out the video below, then head to the YouTube page to upload your video response.