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    Fairfield City Champion, Australia
    Jan 20 2015


    Book blasts body image

    By Kirstie Chlopicki
    Jan. 21, 2015, midnight

    OBESITY, body image and bullying are just some of the issues that will
    be covered in a new novel published by Bossley Park resident Tamar
    Chnorhokian.

    The Armenian-Australian writer grew up in south-west Sydney and her
    youth fiction book The Diet Starts on Monday is set in multicultural
    Fairfield.

    "It's about an obese teenage girl in her last year of school who
    decides to lose weight to win the boy of her dreams," she said.

    The first-time author said she had struggled herself with weight and
    self-esteem issues in high school and wanted to send a positive
    message to teens feeling the pressure to lose the kilos.

    "I always wanted to write about that struggle," she said.

    "As I got older I realised it doesn't end -- it relates to everybody."

    Ms Chnorhokian said that with teens exposed to a constant stream of
    ideal and unrealistic images from media, it was hard for both males
    and females to live up to expectations.

    "That's all that they see -- [it's] pushed into their faces every day," she said.

    "They're conditioned to think that's what they should look like, but
    my book challenges that.

    "There are people who will accept you for who you are."

    The novel combines a strong message on body image with multicultural
    elements, including Armenian, Italian, Lebanese and Assyrian
    characters, and references to the Fairfield and Liverpool areas.

    "There are no books that show Fairfield in a positive light, but I had
    a good experience growing up here."

    It's published by Sweatshop.

    http://www.fairfieldchampion.com.au/story/2827893/book-blasts-body-image/




    From: A. Papazian
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