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How 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...
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Here’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...
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You 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...
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What I Learnt From My Year Of Casual Sex
Things got interesting… After the emotional rollercoaster that was the four-and-a-half-year relationship with the Big to my Carrie, I was absolutely over being with someone – but I was not over being...
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If 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...
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I 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,...
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How 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...
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7 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...
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NSFW: Here’s What A Vagina REALLY Looks Like
WARNING: This article is definitely NSFW. The female form is forever being sexualized by society, and beauty standards and expectations for women are at an all-time high, so it really is little wonder...
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13 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...
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All 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...
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Khloe 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...
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63 Year-Old Christie Brinkley Just Modelled 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...
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