The article examines body image from the perspective of its various components and its physiological and social implications. It provides a brief historical background on the beginnings of body image studies, as well as some considerations about physiology and social aspects and how they influence body image. Lastly, bibliographic research based on such great scholars as Paul Schilder, Thomas F. Cash, and Thomas Pruzinsky is used to underpin the construction of a consistent concept of body image, showing how at each and every moment we create our own body image, since each image that we create influences whoever is around us, and vice versa.
body image; body; embodiment