Newsflash to Megan Fox: Eating disorders, cutting are no normal teenage “phase”
In an interview this month with Rolling Stone, Jennifer’s Body star Megan Fox revealed that she used to cut herself. But, hey, it’s no biggie, because as Fox tells it, pesky things like self-harming...
View ArticleFrom Hollywood to Bollywood: The whittling waistlines of Indian actresses
If I could travel to any part of the globe, India would be it. But as much as I love Indian food and culture, I'm not all that hip on Bollywood and the representation of Indian women in film. Luckily...
View ArticleThe Digest: F-words making the news
Hard to swallow: Washington mom Juliet Lee has eaten five pounds of ribs, 43 inches of cheese steak sub, 31 dozen raw oysters, 13 slices of pizza, 13 pounds of cranberry sauce, and 13...
View ArticleScholastic brings back The Babysitter’s Club!
If you’re, say, mid-twenties or older and female, chances are you’ve read at least one Ann M. Martin book. Martin, of course, is the author of the The Baby-Sitter’s Club, the series about a gang of...
View ArticleBought and sold
It’s Friday (!) and in case the mid-afternoon slump strikes, here’s a couple videos to slack off to. A new PBS documentary follows four girls as they grapple with body image issues, unhealthy and...
View ArticleWhat We Missed
A new study of 1,000 American girls between the ages of 13-17 by the Girl Scouts finds that 9 out of 10 girls say they feel pressure from the media and/or fashion industry to be skinny. More than 80...
View ArticleFOX and ABC refuse to air Lane Bryant lingerie commercial
Outrage is brewing over FOX and ABC’s opposition to airing Lane Bryant’s sexy ad for its new Cacique Intimates lingerie. In a post on LB’s Inside Curve blog, the company claims that ABC “restricted our...
View ArticleBritish “health” mag fattens up gaunt thin model
In a strange twist to the usual Photoshopped models debate, a British magazine has ‘fessed up to digitally manipulating an image of a shockingly thin model to make her look… heavier. Jane Druker,...
View ArticleThe Wednesday Weigh-In
Margarita Tartakovsky of the blog Weightless interviews Cheryl Kerrigan, author of the new book Telling ED NO! and Other Practical Tools to Conquer Your Eating Disorder and Find Freedom. Fat Lot of...
View ArticleThe Beauty Advantage
I meant to post this the other week, but that pesky thing called life got in the way and I back-burnered it. Newsweek has put together an awesome special feature on the advantages (and yes, even...
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