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Tattoos!
How do you feel about tattoos? Love them, hate them, don’t care? Should we be judging other people based on their tattoos? Can it be liberating to get one? No doubt Vivia Chen of the Careerist would...
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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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Stories of Substance: Body Image Round-Up
Sorry I’ve been missing in action. I was celebrating my birthday last weekend! And then I’ve been working a lot. But here are the latest interesting things I’ve seen online. Check out Amy Poehler’s...
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Weight Stigma Awareness Week: My Body Is None Of Your Business
The Binge Eating Disorder Association (BEDA) is holding Weight Stigma Awareness Week. According to BEDA, weight stigma can be: practical (for instance, medical equipment or seats in most public places...
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Stories of Substance: Body Image Round-Up
There are so many great blogs out there! Check out these great posts and news articles I found this week. Personal, thought-provoking examination about Breaking The Connection Between “Thin” and...
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Retail Therapy, Body Image and Self Esteem
From the time I got my working papers in my early teens and my first job, I shopped too much. I purveyed fashion magazines looking at fashion and beauty trends, trying to find an affordable way to...
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Stories of Substance: Body Image Round-Up
You’ve had to deal with being called fat your whole life. Then your daughter calls a classmate fat. How do you deal with it? In this amazing essay in Allure Magazine by one of my favorite authors,...
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The Designated Ugly Fat Friend (“DUFF”)
If we all couldn’t always have as much fun as these 2 girls every time we went out. Heh. Back when I was single and going out to the bars, a friend of mine complained to me she felt like she was her...
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Stories of Substance: Body Image Round-Up
It’s been too long! Life has just gotten in the way of writing here. I promise to do a longer post soon, but in the meantime, here are some terrific articles you should check out. Excellent article on...
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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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