joining us in the studio is kirsten grives. she is a doctoral candidate in the department of sociology at ucla and the author of "mirror mirror off the wall, how i learned to love my body by not looking at it for a year." now, i can't imagine this because of the nature of the work that i do. so i'm looking at the headline and thinking i couldn't do that. so you spent a long time working on this book. >> i did. >> tell me what the motivation was. >> well, as a sociology graduate student, my research focus is on body image and women's issues. so i surprised myself that when i was engaged to be married i kind of got caught up in all of that bridal hoopla about looking beautiful that one day and i felt so frustrated with myself about my own body image issues that i decided to needed something big to push back on that big media telling me i needed to look perfect. >> first tell me about the uncomfortableness you had with your body image. >> well, when i was in high school and college, i had anorexia. i recovered from it, but part of