Her comments follow a new ComRes survey that found more than half of 18 to 34-year-olds feel that reality TV and social media have a negative effect on how they see their bodies.
Jessie Smart, from the Christian Ministry Belle told Premier shows like Love Island can make young people have unrealistic ideas of the way their bodies are supposed to be.
Speaking during Premier News Hour, she said: “We all know they’re all a similar kind of look of people. They fulfil what society considers as attractive.
“And actually what we need to do is start to widen that and show people who are representative of real life.”
She said while she missed the final, both her and her husband had watched previous episodes.
Explaining why, she said: “I’m a youth pastor, he’s a kid’s pastor and obviously I do a lot of work with girls on body image… just knowing the sort of influence that it has on the way we view our bodies, I wanted to be a part of that conversation.
“And I actually wanted to be able to chat with the young people in my youth group about what they thought about it and whether they were watching it and be able to have all of these conversations and be able to give a different voice among them.”
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