Article September 7, 1998 Issue

for teens

Truly beautiful you

Barbara Shutt Wallace

In high school, I couldn't wait to get the new month's issue of the trendiest fashion magazine. Beauty, it seemed, was packaged perfectly in its pages.

But how could I ever measure up to the models that graced the pages? I experimented with various diet fads, but pizza on Saturday night would undo all the week's effort. I'd be back to square one where the up-and-down numbers on the scale would hypnotize me into a moody roller coaster.

In the midst of all this, I also attended a Christian Science Sunday School. Here, the beauty-glamour-image stuff I was fixated on during the week was routinely moved aside for an entirely different definition of beauty.

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