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Author manuscript; available in PMC 2025 December 31. |\n| --- | --- |\n\nPublished in final edited form as:  \nEat Behav. 2024 December ; 55: 101931. doi:10.1016/j.eatbeh.2024.101931 .  \nHigh shape and weight importance in adolescence relates to worse body image in the first perinatal period  \nLyza Nortona,* , Rebecca L. Emery Tavernierb,c, Katie Lothd, Susan Masone  \na University of Melbourne, School of Population and Global Health, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton, Victoria 3010, Australia  \nb Weitzman Institute, 631 Main St. , Middletown, CT 06457, United States of America c University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth Campus, 1035 University Dr. , Duluth, MN 55812, United States of America  \nd Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota, 717 Delaware Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55454, United States of America  \ne Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, 1300 South 2nd Street, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55454, United States of America  \nAbstract  \nUnderstanding whether shape and weight importance in adolescence relates to body image during the perinatal period is essential to inform eating disorder prevention and intervention research. We longitudinally examined the relationship between weight and shape importance during adolescence and body image during (1) pregnancy and (2) the first postpartum year.  \nParticipants included 554 women from the Life-course Experiences and Pregnancy (LEAP) study, a longitudinal cohort of women participating since adolescence in Project EAT (Eating and Activity in Teens and Young Adults). Participants reported shape and weight importance during adolescence (11–18 years old) for Project EAT and retrospectively recalled body image during and after their first pregnancy for the LEAP study 20 years later. Separate linear regression models estimated the longitudinal associations between adolescent shape and weight importance and pregnancy and postpartum body image. After covariate adjustment, results showed small, positive associations between adolescent shape and weight importance and pregnancy ( B = 0.07 95 % CI:  \n0.02, 0.11) and postpartum ( B = 0.10, 95 % CI: 0.06, 0.14) body image. These findings indicate that high shape and weight importance in adolescence relates to worse body image across the perinatal period. Results highlight the importance of (1) targeting the years prior to adolescence  \nThis is an open access article under the CC BY license ([http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)).  \n*[Corresponding author. lyza.norton@unimelb.edu.au](Corresponding author. lyza.norton@unimelb.edu.au) (L. Norton) .  \nDeclaration of competing interest  \nThe authors declare that they have no known conflicts of interests that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.  \nCRediT authorship contribution statement  \nLyza Norton: Writing – review & editing, Writing – original draft. Rebecca L. Emery Tavernier: Formal analysis. Katie Loth: Writing – review & editing, Writing – original draft, Conceptualization. Susan Mason: Writing – review & editing, Methodology, Funding acquisition, Conceptualization.  \nAuthor Manuscript Author Manuscript Author Manuscript Author Manuscript  \nNorton et al. Page 2  \nfor eating disorder prevention interventions and (2) providing support and interventions for people in the perinatal period, specifically targeting body image.  \nKeywords  \nBody image; Adolescents; Pregnancy; Postpartum; Disordered eating  \n1. Introduction  \nUnderstanding risk factors for eating disorders is important for the development of successful health promotion campaigns and prevention interventions (Jacobi et al., 2004) . One key risk factor for eating disorders is body dissatisfaction (Barakat et al., 2023) .  \nIndeed, the","cbCaiai5KhJXK7vQ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiai5KhJXK7vQ","pdf",345370,13,"English","# Abstract\n# 1. 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