Darryl Roberts

It's the third week of January. Are you exhausted yet from counting calories, points, fat grams and carbs? Even if you've managed to make it this long, do you know your dieting days are numbered? Why did you think it would be different this year?

Each year, the diet industry...

I'm Darryl Roberts, the director of the documentary "America the Beautiful 2: The Thin Commandments." My new documentary takes a look at why I think BMI is misguided and how we can be healthy at a wide variety of sizes.

Before I get into that, I want to mention that...

Dear Oprah,

Maybe Dear Oprah is too formal.

Hello Oprah,

I'm writing this open letter to you because I've run across thousands of women that love you. This is tough for me to write because you are doing so many awesome things for people all over the world.

I'm the...

I recently had the good fortune of being invited to screen my documentary America the Beautiful, at the Shaped Body Symposium in Vienna, Austria, a global body image conference, which included professors, health professionals, and government representatives from all over the world. This was the European premiere of my film...

Teenage girls in the world united!

As some of you may be aware, MTV was involved with a new "reality" program entitled Model Makers. The show aimed to take 15 young women between the ages of 17 and 24 and turn them into high fashion models by forcing them to...

I decided to reflect my thoughts about this show in the form of a letter. A letter to MTV. In case they actually read it.

Dear MTV,

I remember when you used to be a music video network. That was a long time ago. Sometime since then you morphed into...

The last five years of my life have been spent making a documentary called America the Beautiful, which deals with America's unhealthy obsession with beauty. After a hard and long process, the film is finally in playing in theaters across the country.

When I set out to make this...