7 Reasons Why The Dad Bod Is Here To Stay
Non threatening, pudgy in all the right places and nice to snuggle up to, what’s not to enjoy? For those of you who have never experienced the grandeur of a Dad Bod in all its glory, quite simply, it...
View ArticleIs Labiaplasty Modern Female Genital Mutilation?
A designer vagina. But at what price? When someone mentions the words ‘female genital mutilation’, my mind immediately jumps to ancient cultures performing a primitive ritual with a rusty scalpel on a...
View ArticleIs ‘Relatable’ The New Body Ideal?
Say hello to the new bikini bod: the one you already have. Remember that line from Pink’s, Don’t Let Me Get Me, “L.A told me you’ll be a pop star, all you have to change is everything you are”? I...
View ArticleHow I Learned To Love My Fat
Size is just a number. I never used to think about food. I grew up in a household where meals ran like clockwork and weren’t a topic of family discussion. We ate breakfast at the table, I took a packed...
View ArticleHere’s How Real Women Rate Their Physical Appearances
I’m thinking of a number between one and ten… In a world where women are trying incessantly to have a voice, it seems all too often our self-confidence is quelled by forces even stronger than our...
View ArticleYou Can Now Buy A Petite, Tall Or Curvy Barbie
Barbie looks a lot more realistic now. The terms ‘diverse’ and ‘realistic body image’ usually don’t come to mind when thinking of Barbie, but that’s about to change, with Mattel announcing three new...
View ArticleIf Amy Schumer Is ‘Plus-Sized’ Then What The Hell Am I?
Bad move, Glamour magazine. So Glamour magazine decided it would be a great idea to release an issue dedicated to women size 12 and up to “change the conversation” about plus-size women. Besides the...
View ArticleI Ditched Dieting And Started Eating Cake For Breakfast – And I’ve Never Been...
My name is Peta and I do not have a problem – promise. I have a confession to make: sometimes I eat cake for breakfast. I’m sure my current ‘treats for breakfast’ situation would be of envy to some,...
View ArticleHow I Gave Up On Skinny And Fell In Love With My Fat Body
I’m not gonna be my own enemy anymore. Last July I was ghosted by my boyfriend of six months. This July, stepping on a scale for the first time since my heart was broken, my body weighed exactly the...
View Article7 Ways You’re Unintentionally Letting Your Inner Critic Sabotage You
You can be your own worst enemy. You know the little voice in your head saying negative things about you? Everyone has looked in the mirror before and thought ‘you look ugly today’, or had a nagging...
View Article13 Reasons Donald Trump Is Bad News For Women If He Becomes President
If Trump is elected, womankind is in deep trouble. With election day looming, both Presidential candidates are under the microscope more than ever before. It’s no secret Donald Trump says and does...
View ArticleAll The Things The Victoria’s Secret Show Makes Me Feel, As A Fat Woman
This show is everything that’s wrong with the world. It’s relatively common knowledge that the Victoria’s Secret catalogue represents everything we’re supposed to strive for as women. We’re supposed to...
View ArticleKhloe Kardashian’s New Show Is Pissing Everyone Off. Here’s Why.
NOT cool, Koko. Khloe Kardashian has a new show called Revenge Body. The premise is as simple as the title – to get back at an ex or someone who rejected you, through the magical power of a...
View Article63 Year-Old Christie Brinkley Just Modeled In A Bikini And WHOA
The supermodel appears in Sports Illustrated alongside her gorgeous daughters. Christie Brinkley is celebrating her 63rd birthday by showing off her stunning bikini body in the 2017 edition of the...
View ArticleWhen Shopping For Clothes Is Worse Than Hell
Call it a quirk, but I just can’t go clothes shopping. I have to go shopping tomorrow and I’m dreading it. I’ve been thinking about it for two weeks, procrastinating and making up excuses not to go,...
View ArticleI’m Fat, And I’ll Wear Whatever The Hell I Want
Wake up: you don’t get to decide what I can and can’t wear. I am so, so tired of being told what’s right for my body. For once I’m not talking about politics here. I mean literally being told what’s...
View ArticleYour Daughters Hear You When You Criticize Your Body
She’s creating her body image based on the things you say. It’s hard being a woman today, believe me I know. We get it from all directions. We’re supposed to be beautiful, but humble, never wear any...
View ArticlePlease, Stop Preaching About Your Obsessions To Me
I really don’t want to hear it. There was this popular show among my friends when I was in high school called Gundam Wing. I’d watched it, not been terribly impressed, shrugged and went on with my...
View ArticleASOS Stopped Airbrushing Models’ Stretch Marks And The Results Are Beautiful
All bow down to ASOS. Shopping for lingerie and swimwear online can be a pretty depressing experience; spending hours looking at perfectly airbrushed models with impossibly Barbie-esque proportions and...
View ArticleCalling Me Fat Isn’t An Insult, It’s A Compliment
C’mon, it’s not even a creative insult. It almost always happens like this. I’m walking down the street and some guy honks his horn or shouts out of the side of his car. Or maybe he’s walking down the...
View ArticleWhy I Won’t Ever Show My Legs In Public
I still don’t know how to love my body unconditionally. It was an unseasonably warm Spring morning in Manhattan. Besides the flat tops of a few nearby buildings, the sun sat like a fat, unpeeled orange...
View ArticleWhy I Didn’t Try To Lose Weight For My Wedding
I tried to treat myself as I would treat a friend. To take care of myself in the months preceding my wedding I had to make a conscious effort to not dive into dieting. Wedding weight loss was off the...
View ArticleThe Day I Realized I Can’t Protect My Daughter From Body Shaming
But damned if I’ll stop trying. My toddler was twirling in her tutu bathing suit while I shimmied into my plus-sized polka-dot bikini. Since my two year-old is still in the phase where she finds it...
View ArticleWhenever I Hate My Body, I Get Naked
My body is my body is my body is my body. On most days, I love my body. I did not come by this love naturally, or maybe I did and the world forced me to unlearn it — to replace that love with a disgust...
View ArticleMy Husband Does Not Get An Award For Loving Me Despite My Fat
I am fat. According to the way the world defines it, I am a fat person. My husband is thin. He ran 16 miles last week. He never has to worry about his pants fitting or people sizing him up when he...
View ArticleI Hated My Own Body So Much It Almost Killed Me
My sister sent me an email. The subject read, ‘I love you. Are you listening?’ For far too long I abused my beautiful body. I talked down to her. I lied to her. I fought with her. I created good and...
View ArticleBody Dysmorphia And The Dark Side of Cosmetic Surgery
Can you trust what you see in the mirror? We all experience moments when something on our faces or bodies doesn’t look right. Maybe your thighs feel like tree trunks, your nose seems too wide (or too...
View ArticleTo My 13-Year-Old Self: I’m Sorry No One Taught You About Your Period
Having a vagina shouldn’t be painful. Hi, there. Do you want a hug? Because you look like you could use a hug. Actually, let me get your cat. He can give better hugs than me. I’m so sorry no one told...
View ArticleDear Ex-Boyfriend, It Wasn’t Okay To Call Me Fat
You were supposed to build me up, not tear me down. Dear Ex-Boyfriend, It wasn’t okay to call me fat. You have no idea what I’m talking about, do you? After all, you never technically used the word...
View ArticleWhat It’s Like To Be Shamed While Pregnant
I’m 16 weeks pregnant with my first baby. When I was younger, I never thought I would get pregnant — by choice. I didn’t see motherhood as compatible with what I saw as my life trajectory, which...
View ArticleCalling Myself “Fat” Isn’t Brave, It’s Just True
I don’t need a pat on the back for acknowledging something that’s already obvious. Part of my morning work ritual is to scan world news and look for anything interesting to report. For example,...
View ArticleDear 13 Year-Old Me, Who Thought I Was Ugly
I wish I’d seen myself as clearly then as I do now. Dear Little Me, I know something about you that no-one else knows. I know you spend 10 minutes every morning standing in front of the mirror before...
View ArticleI’m Transgender, And I Need Body Positivity Too
But my body positivism doesn’t hinge on the idea that all bodies are perfect, just as they are. I love body positivism. What’s not to love? I’m all about any movement for self-acceptance and being a...
View ArticleAll The Things I’ve Done To Be One Of The Pretty Girls
Pretty is as pretty does. I’ve faked being pretty since the day I discovered a rogue lipstick; rolling about unattended on my mother’s dresser. I’ve nipped, tucked and sucked every inch of flesh ever...
View ArticleThis Is What It’s Like To Be A Five Foot Tall Woman
Even as a home-owning adult, I feel like a child. I am a small woman. I stand just over five feet tall and, outside of pregnancy, my heaviest weight (my current) is 110 pounds. I can still buy some...
View Article9 Ways To Become Empowered In Your Body
Learn to love the skin you’re in. ”Self-esteem isn’t everything,” legendary feminist and activist Gloria Steinem once said. “It’s just that there’s nothing without it.” With those words, Steinem...
View Article13 Beauty Treatments You Never Knew Your Vagina Needed
Just when you thought your lady flower was fine as is. I hate to put the pressure on, but chances are your vagina is in need of a spa treatment. You may be on top of grooming and waxing, but what about...
View ArticleFace-To-Face With My Own Fatphobia
“You have Stage 4 Lipedema. It’s a rare fat disease. Your bottom half told me.” You might wonder who said this to me. Was it a friend? A doctor? Someone close to me in the medical profession? No, it...
View Article7 Things I Wish People Knew About Being A Fat Woman
You do you, just make sure you do it without making other people feel crappy about their bodies. I used to spend a lot of time wondering if people were polite to my face and rude behind my back,...
View ArticleHow To Protect Yourself From The Very Real Thing That Is Beauty Sickness
A serious condition that’s way more than skin deep. Hair and makeup, body glitter, eating right… on the bright side of beauty there’s unicorn eyeshadow palettes and healthy living. But there’s a dark...
View ArticleYes, I’m Fat, I’m Not Going Anywhere And I’m Not Shutting Up
I’ve learned that someone else’s opinion of my body doesn’t matter. A not-so-big-but-big thing happened to me a few nights ago, and it changed the way I relate to my own self-esteem. On Tuesdays and...
View ArticleI’m Happy In My Fat Body, But I Miss Being Thin
Content notice: dieting, weight loss, eating disorders Are you a thin kid who became a fat adult? Did you spend your youth eating anything and everything paying no attention to the warnings of the...
View ArticleThese Pics Of My Double Chin Helped Me Dump High-Angle Photos Forever
About a year ago I took a big leap: I decided to stop taking high-angle photos once and for all. When it’s time to take group photos someone almost always seems to suggest that we take a photo from...
View Article7 ‘Innocent’ Habits That Lead To Eating Disorders
There are many things we do on a daily basis that seem innocent, but may pave the way for serious mental and physical health issues in future. I was scrolling through my phone recently to find a...
View ArticleWhat I Learned Growing Up Being The “Skinny Bitch”
Size is just a number. Health is priceless. “Skinny bitch.” The words were said in a kind of joking way, but it still took me by surprise. I was having some of my mom friends over for a group playdate,...
View ArticleI Convinced Myself Being Fat Meant I Didn’t Deserve Love. I Was Wrong.
I never thought a guy like him would be interested in me. This is my boyfriend. I will give you a moment to wipe the drool off your chin. Now, I’m not saying I’m hideous or undeserving of such a good...
View ArticleAn Open Letter To My Body: I’m Sorry For All The Terrible Things I Did To You...
I’m sorry for all the times I made you go hungry. Dear Body of Mine, Just quietly, this is a slightly awkward letter for me to write to you, given the extremely close proximity you and I are forced to...
View ArticleI Wore Makeup To School Every Day. Here’s What I Wish My Teacher Knew.
“One teacher with a makeup wipe was powerless to undo the damage of society…” There’s something I did at 15 years old that I’ve never told anyone. Standing in front of my bathroom mirror, I lifted my...
View ArticleThe One Mindset Shift That Will Transform Your Life
If you’ve ever been body shamed, read this. I’m no stranger to internet hate. Recently, a man left quite a nasty comment on one of my posts. For whatever reason, he felt compelled to tell me my body...
View ArticleAnorexia Recovery And Sex: How The Two Go Hand In Hand
Content Notice: eating disorder. I’m in recovery from anorexia. I’m also learning how to have sex again. The two have more in common than you think. Being in recovery isn’t about just reappraising your...
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