Leslie Goldman

As someone who spends approximately 38% of the day with her boob in someone's mouth, I took particular interest in the recent TIME magazine kerfuffle over attachment parenting. "Three years is too old for a child to still be nursing!" screams one camp. "Nursing on demand, even until toddlerhood, makes...

A person's name wields an incredible amount of power. Consider mine, for instance: the name Leslie nearly turned me gay. I vividly recall sitting on my parent's bed in the fourth grade and gently breaking it to my mother that I was a lesbian. "What makes you think that's the...

Why is there an 11-year-old on the elliptical next to me?

Last week, from the sweaty comfort of the StepMill at my gym, I watched Real Housewife Nene Leakes attempt to navigate a gravel parking lot in six-inch Louboutins. Halfway through her second glass of iced moscato, a membership...

"Ugh."

That was my husband's reaction when he opened our mailbox last week and pulled out the new US Weekly, plastered with a sad photo of Khloé Kardashian alongside the desperate headline, "I'll do anything for a baby." (A few months earlier, it had been Giuliana Rancic, revealing how a...

If you're anything like me, you spent the latter half of Thanksgiving week gorging yourself on turkey and cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, a few bricks of stuffing and assorted pies for dessert. But you know who is nothing like me? Victoria's Secret Angel Adriana Lima. I know this because A)...

Three years ago, the time came to sell my trusty red Mercury Cougar. She'd lasted me a full decade, ever since my parents bought her for me as a college graduation gift. At the Honda dealership, we were given a large garbage bag to empty out our trunk before trading...

In high school, I swore I would never, ever date someone who was shorter than me. I was 5'10"-and-a-half, felt 6'2", and believed only a man of Shaquille O'Neal's stature could make me feel dainty, feminine and non-Amazonian. I suffered from a major Bea Arthur complex, and was...

US Weekly fans are familiar with the weekly "What's in My Bag?" style and beauty feature, in which readers gain an insider's peek at celeb's purses. One week we might learn that Whitney Port carries a Miu Miu wallet, an apple, blush and a Blow Pop.

Is it any shock that the creator and executive producer of Oxygen's Dance Your Ass Off attended her first Weight Watchers meeting at 12, struggled with bulimia throughout college and spent decades submerging herself in crazy workout regimens and weight loss schemes to nab roles in films such as The...

This weekend, I enlisted my most stylish friend, Amanda, to help me Stacy & Clinton my closet. My instructions for Amanda were simple: Be ruthless and purge my wardrobe of any outdated, ill-fitting or just plain ugly sartorial sins. The fact was, I owned button-downs I hadn't worn for six...

Much like the great pyramids of Egypt, the USDA Food Pyramid has been around forever. And much like those grandiose Egyptian structures, people have stared, slackjawed, marveling at this formidable construction and wondering, "How is that even possible?" Do I really need to take down 11 slices of...

Yesterday, I received the following email from a producer at ABC:

Hi Leslie, I am looking for a body image expert to comment on Kirstie Alley and her weight loss struggles. Specifically, she's said she is down to a size 4 - but she seems more like a size 14...

Le sigh.

Is there anything that doesn't make us women feel like monstrous, overstuffed cows?

We know pictures like this and this do the trick.

High school cliques bulldoze body image, sororities are breeding grounds for anorexia...

When Stephanie Izard, of "Top Chef" fame, hands you a plate of goat goulash sprinkled with crumbled potato chips and served over creamy, cool potato aioli, you don't ask questions. Just grab a fork and dig into the comforting deliciousness that has propelled her Girl...

I know that when my husband gets out of his seat and brings me a magazine, pages splayed open, and says, "Check out this ad: You need to blog about it," it's got to be something good. And last night was no exception. On the inside cover of this week's...

Katherine Sutherland, an OB-GYN in Mountain View, CA, knows something about terrible periods -- and not just from her patients. She used to soak through tampons every hour, excusing herself to go to the bathroom between appointments. Heavy bleeding made doing what she...

The past year was filled with nonstop reality TV weight loss drama, a smattering of Photoshopping debacles and some bonafide plus-sized model love. Snooki taught us about body image, the Real Housewives all slimmed down, and anorexia poster girl Isabelle Caro passed away. Saudi...

Today, Madonna opened Hard Candy Fitness, the first of her new worldwide chain of fitness centers. The mega star greeted members herself, opening the doors to the 30,000-square-foot Mexico City club and even teaching a dance class for 20 hand-picked members as music by Paul Oakenfold,...

At 5'9" and a size 6, Katie Halchishick was deemed "plus sized" by the modeling industry and asked to "just shave two inches" off her bony hips. At size 14, she was earning six figures but didn't feel healthy. In reality, the only thing that's plus-sized about this...

Inspired by last night's Thintervention season finale, I started thinking about how so many Real Housewives have slimmed down before our zoned-out, reality TV-obsessed eyes. The ladies of New Jersey, New York, Orange County, Atlanta and DC might not have much in common (Countess de Lesseps and Kim...