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Abstract Eating disorders are one of the most lethal mental health disorders, and rates continue to increase. While eating disorder research has primarily focused on individual etiology and treatment, the role of parental figures in the transmission of food and body messages and the effect of those messages is not well understood. To contribute to a modern, nuanced understanding of how food and body size messages are transmitted through families, we conducted an inductive, qualitative content analysis. We sampled Tik Tok posts describing adults’ perceived experiences of receiving food and body related messages from parental figures. Five themes emerged related to childhood experiences, awareness of familial attitudes about food and body size, and identifying individual perspectives of family’s belief about food and body. Implications for future research and clinical practice are presented and discussed.
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