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A 2014 TI reflection on body image — the ears, the forehead, the endless list — and the Jubilee Project video that asked why children love their bodies more
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Chubbiness, Japan's plus-size girl band: ten marshmallow girls chosen from 3,500 auditionees in 2013 as a pushback against the industry's worship of thinness.
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From clothing sizes to wages to workplace respect, plus-size women face bias everywhere — and exercise isn't the whole answer.
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The bathroom scale is a noisy, misleading instrument. The case for tossing it — and judging your health by behaviors instead of a number.
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Fashion keeps sorting women's bodies into fruit and vegetable shapes — pear, apple, carrot, eggplant. The taxonomy says more about marketing than about bodies.
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Two body-positivity advocates — Molly Barker and Caitlin Boyle — ditched makeup, blow-drys, and shaving for 60 days. What the experiment revealed about
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Tabloids fretted over Angelina Jolie's thinness in 2011 — while celebrating the thinness they claimed to worry about. The double bind, examined.
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