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Photoshopping: Acceptable Art or Promotion of Unhealthy Body Images?
The media has been buzzing lately about the AMA’s new policy speaking out against advertiser’s heavily photoshopped images that distort model’s body images. I believe (as does the AMA) that young...
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Pro-Anorexia Blogs and Body Positive Blogs: Equating The Two is Simply Idiotic
Are body positive photo blogs actually positive? Websites and blogs such as Refinery 29 and iVillage have been abuzz about this issue. Here’s a picture from Curve Appeal, a body-positive blog that...
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U.K. Advertising Standards Authority Takes Stand Against Airbrushing
I recently wrote an article about airbrushing in the media and the unhealthy body image such doctored pictures promote for women. Now the U.K’s Advertising Standards Authority has taken a hardline,...
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What If You Lost Half Your Body Weight Only To Be Traded In For Someone Twice...
What would you do if after losing half your body weight, your husband left you for a woman twice your size? In Stacey Ballis’ latest novel, Good Enough to Eat, main character Melanie Hoffman finds...
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Interview With Jenny Gardiner (Author of Slim to None)-Part One
I was lucky enough to have the chance to talk to the smart and articulate author Jenny Gardiner about her great novel Slim to None, as well as to discuss body image issues, including her personal...
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Interview With Jenny Gardiner (Author of Slim to None)-Part 2
In Part 1 of my interview with Jenny Gardiner, we talked about her novel Slim to None and the body image issues the main character Abbie deals with. During our conversation, we also spoke more broadly...
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TLC’s Big Sexy-A TV Series Not to Be Missed!
I waited for TLC’s three part Big Sexy series with a combination of hopeful excitement and trepidation. I loved the concept-five plus size, confident and intelligent women making their way in fashion...
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The “Curse” of Believing You’re Nothing But a Beautiful Woman: Who Is...
Being beautiful is a hard cross to bear, says Samantha Brick. Brick wrote an article for The Daily Mail this past week lamenting the hardships she’s been forced to endure as a freakishly beautiful...
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Project Runway, Ven Budhu, and Terri Herlihy: Body Shaming and Bullying At...
Project Runway is a long-time guilty pleasure of mine. But I was pretty shocked and upset by their recent episode airing the L’Oreal Paris Makeover My Friend Challenge. In this episode, “real life”...
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Scared Skinny No More: The Book (And An Interview With Mary Dimino))
You may recall my interview with Mary Dimino, a comedienne I met at her show Scared Skinny: A One (Hundred Pound Lighter) Woman Show. If you haven’t seen it and/or read the interview, you should...
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