Roberto Olivardia, PhD

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Speaking of Psychology · Social media, looksmaxxing, and why men struggle with body image, with Roberto Olivardia, PhD · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

And sometimes just unlike with girls with negative body image, you'll often find that girls who mature earlier are at higher risk of body image issues and receiving unwanted attention for their bodies.

With boys, it's the opposite.

The boys who mature later tend to be at higher risk.

And when I say being bullied, particularly, I mean, sometimes for things that are unrelated to appearance, but being bullied for appearance is not always being bullied for having a larger body, but actually being bullied for being too thin.

Because with male body image, being thin is associated with being, quote unquote, weak and not being masculine enough.

And so the idea of building this muscular body now became more than just, oh, I want to have this big body.

It's kind of this armor of masculinity and the symbol that that sort of represents.

We also know, I see as far as comorbid or associated disorders, things like depression, social anxiety disorder is actually a very common one.

And what I hear from a lot of my patients will say,

you know, I feel so awkward in social situations and particularly in dating kind of romantic relationships that if I just look a certain way, my body can sort of do the speaking for me, you know, in a way.

And of course, we know that that doesn't work.

I mean, it might have people approach you, but then you still have to talk and converse.

And then from a sociocultural manner that there's no question that, I mean, unlike

With women who historically have been promoted these sort of imagery, this imagery of thinness, I mean, going back to the 1600s, with boys and men, it's been a little bit different.

That in our research, we found that it was really the late 70s and early 80s where we really saw this sort of

promotion of muscular bodies.

I mean, if you think, you know, as a kid that grew up in the 80s, the biggest box office stars were Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who their bodies were like kind of a commodity.

And Calvin Klein ads and sort of more sort of men featured in advertisements with their chests and the fitness boom and bodybuilding kind of really kind of came into it.

Men's fitness and health magazines exploded.

And I have to tell you, I mean, social media, doing this work, unlike any other condition diagnosis that I work with, I have never seen something be so impacted by something on a sociocultural level as I have with the impact of social media on body image.

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