Garner’s parents made a wise choice. A 2017 study revealed that girls as young as seven believed that their appearances were of more importance and value than their achievements, intelligence or personality.

Society conditions young women to believe that the way they look matters. At the age of 10, 81% of girls in the US are afraid of being fat. More than half of teenage girls in the US are dieting, or believe that they should be dieting already. Not framing compliments around appearances is one way to reinforce in young women that they are worth so much more than just the way they look.

Speaking to Stylist, psychologist Dr Phillippa Diedrechs said that “beauty can be a very loaded word for lots of women… Historically, appearance has been seen to be very central to a woman’s identity. We know men are affected by body image concerns and there can be narrow appearance ideals but, historically, they have been able to succeed, represent themselves and participate in society in lots of different ways.”

Jennifer Garner just summed up the problem with the word pretty