BBHC Unfiltered

Loving Your Body Is Not Vanity

Nick Howarth

Published on: 23/01/2026

Isn’t it strange—almost suspicious—that in modern society, caring deeply for your body and being proud of it is labelled as vain? Somehow, valuing the very thing that keeps you alive is framed as narcissism. Meanwhile, neglecting your health, outsourcing responsibility to pills, processed food, and diagnoses, and slowly falling apart is considered “humble” or “normal.” That alone should make you pause.