We asked you. You answered. Your thoughts on getting naked

You prioritise your health and want to get the most out of your body – but we want to get to grips with how you really feel about it. So we asked, and more than 1,800 of you told us. The results are in...

Do you want the good news, or the not-so-good news? The good: you accept what your body can do for you (a whole lot, ta) and treat it with respect. The not-so-good? You don’t seem to like it very much. When we, along with 13 Women’s Health teams across the world, commissioned the first ever global Naked Survey, we weren’t sure what to expect, but when it came to UK readers, we hoped to find that more than 14% of you would describe yourselves as body positive. Alas, not so. When you also consider that 60% of you think your body is, well, fine (rather than being totally confident or really unhappy with it) it’s clear that, among healthy British women, the idea of your naked body conjures up nothing more than acceptance – with no celebration, admiration or love. And what’s more, it seems we’re lagging behind most of the other countries surveyed in the body positivity stakes. Ladies, this is not good enough. If you’re like us and want to shift from lukewarm acceptance to brazen confidence (and if you’re not, that’s totally fine, too), let’s make a pact to remember we’re beautiful, strong and powerful. Are you in? Good.