Category: Body Image

Body Image Body Positivity Family Parenting Small Humans

How to give kids good body image in the age of Snapchat

sudshr47 December 12, 2018

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Welcome to Small Humans, an ongoing series at Mashable that looks at how to take care of – and deal with – the kids in your life. Because Dr. Spock is nice and all, but it’s 2018 and we have the entire internet to contend with.

During a recent date night with my husband, my beloved babysitter let my 4-year-old daughter take a few (unpublished) pictures with a Snapchat filter that added blush and eyelashes while smoothing out her already blemish-free skin. My daughter was transfixed, and started referring to those pictures as “the pretty ones.” My jaw instantly dropped, as did my heart.  

“By age 4, children begin to compare themselves to others,” says Dr. Pam Roggeman, academic dean for the University of Phoenix College of Education. “There is now a new task added to the job of being a parent: teaching our kids to be critical viewers to help them develop an identity that is beyond their appearance.” Read more…

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Little Mix strip down and write slurs on their naked bodies

sudshr47 November 15, 2018

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British pop group Little Mix have sent a powerful message out to fans: love yourself.

The four band members — Jade Thirlwall, Perrie Edwards, Jesy Nelson, and Leigh-Anne Pinnock — posed naked with words scrawled on their skin. Words like: slutty, ugly, fat, talentless, odd-looking, flabby, tart, and gobby. 

The image has been shared to promote the forthcoming single Strip — the video for which features body positivity activists like Bryony Gordon, Nimco Ali, and Hannah Witton. 

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Body Image Culture Identities Lili Reinhart Riverdale

‘Riverdale’ star Lili Reinhart delivers a powerfully honest speech about body image

sudshr47 November 12, 2018

Riverdale star Lily Reinhart is done apologising for her body. 
Speaking at Glamour’s ‘Women of the Year’ event, the 22-year old actress lashed out against the media’s retouching culture and “fake” beauty standards in a powerful and honest s…

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Netflix’s ‘Insatiable’ takes 12 mind-numbing hours to add insult to injury

sudshr47 August 19, 2018

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Turns out Insatiable wasn’t better than advertised.

If you’re not caught up on the controversy, in July, Netflix dropped a trailer for the new campy, teen series—and some viewers (understandably) lost it. Labeling the preview an unequivocal display of fat-shaming, many called for its cancellation prior to the series’ premiere. 

On August 10th, Netflix made Insatiable available as scheduled — and the mystery of whether its promotion was a marketing faux pas or a sneak peek into a costly mistake was ripe for the solving. Read more…

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Body Image Culture Self Care Uk Women

How an Instagram post about ‘saggy boobs’ led to a global movement to empower women

sudshr47 August 13, 2018

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When Chidera Eggerue hit post on an Instagram photo of herself wearing a “really cute” yellow minidress at a party, she didn’t realise she had just started a global movement. 

23-year-old Eggerue — who’s also known by her blogger pseudonym The Slumflower — had been sifting through her photos taken the night before when she noticed her boobs looked “saggy.” “It was a deep plunge neckline so it meant you could see the posture of my boobs,” says Eggerue. She liked all the photos she’d taken because she “looked so happy,” so she decided to upload one. “But then I noticed that my boobs were saggy and I knew that people might feel a certain way about it.”  Read more…

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This actual black mirror could help you lose weight

sudshr47 August 1, 2018

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The mirror wakes up suddenly, one glowing blue-white circle appearing like the eye of Sauron on its thick black bezel. A red laser beam shoots out, hitting its mark on the Bluetooth-connected platform where the mirror’s designated owner is to stand.  Read more…

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Riverdale’s Lili Reinhart calls out ‘Cosmopolitan Philippines’ for Photoshopping her waist

sudshr47 March 9, 2018

Riverdale stars Lili Reinhart and Camila Mendes had an important message for Cosmopolitan Philippines: Don’t Photoshop our bodies. 
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Body positivity isn’t enough. This book will teach you ‘radical’ self-love.

sudshr47 March 1, 2018

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Sonya Renee Taylor, an activist and poet who identifies as fat, black, and queer, refuses to apologize for her body. 

But she doesn’t want you to mistake her defiance for an abundance of self-esteem or self-confidence. Nor is it solely about body positivity, a movement that has empowered countless people but one that Taylor believes falls short of offering true liberation for everyone. 

Instead, Taylor champions radical self-love — the kind that helps people flat-out reject body shame of any kind. And Taylor persuasively offers that vision to the world in her new book, The Body Is Not Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love.  Read more…

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Olympian Adam Rippon speaks out about his starvation diet

sudshr47 February 14, 2018

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Olympian Adam Rippon has spoken candidly about his starvation diet for the same reason he publicly came out: to start a conversation.

The U.S. figure skating champion told the New York Times of his incredibly strict 2016 diet, which consisted of three pieces of bread and not much else.

“It was 2016, and Rippon was subsisting mostly on a daily diet of three slices of whole grain bread topped with miserly pats of the spread I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter,” Times sports reporter Karen Crouse wrote. “He supplemented his ‘meals’ with three cups of coffee, each sweetened with six packs of Splenda.” Read more…

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Body Image Body Positivity Culture Plus Size Teens

Plus-size teen rocks dress she never thought she’d wear and the photos are so inspiring

sudshr47 February 13, 2018

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Friends can sometimes give us the little nudge we need to try something that we’ve lacked the confidence to do. 

Ashlie Bautista, 18, from Texas, USA, tweeted that her friends convinced her to wear a dress she never thought she’d wear. And, she ended up gaining some confidence in herself.  

“So last night, I wore something that I never thought I would wear,” wrote Bautista. “I’m very insecure but with the help of my amazing friends for hyping me up, I was able to wear it and gained a little bit more confidence in myself.” Read more…

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Women from tiny village pose nude to teach others about body image

sudshr47 January 30, 2018

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When it came time for Cathy Bartlett-Horwood to drop her dressing gown to the floor and stand naked in her village hall in front of her friends, she was nervous. The 60-year-old has had a complicated relationship with her weight for many years. She was so nervous, in fact, that she was physically sick beforehand.

Nevertheless, she persisted. Bartlett-Horwood became part of a group of brave women who’ve come to be known as the “Wonders of Whimple.” The “wonders” are thus-named because they posed naked in the village’s most scenic spots for a calendar celebrating the beauty of the village’s female population. Read more…

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