"I've always made sure to keep myself covered, specifically my belly and upper thighs," Reddit user brokedowngirl wrote Sunday in a post titled, "My SO just saw me naked for the first time and I broke down crying."

For two years, she said, she has been in a...

Media and advertising are often unkind to women, but you get the best sense of how unkind when someone compiles several demeaning ads in one place.

The documentary "MissRepresentation" accomplished that in 2011, bringing media's objectification of women into stark relief through the sheer volume of images...

Earlier this year, Dan, Arianna's chief of staff, and Margaret, HuffPost's women's editor, realized they have something unusual in common. Not only do they both use their middle names professionally, they do it for the same reason. This Mother's Day, they decided to share why it's so important to them...

Or at least that we think of them as such.

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RELATED ON HUFFPOST: 6 Reasons To Stop Dieting, From The Daily Muse

I remember hearing it all the time in my all-girls high school. "I'm so fat." "My _____s are huge." "I can't believe I ate that. I'm disgusting." I remember hearing it even more in my own head.

Then a strange thing happened when I went to college. I didn't...

Elisabeth Hasselbeck, a host on ABC's The View, appeared on HuffPost Live Monday for a conversation with Abby Huntsman that touched on everything from parenthood to the rumor that she's leaving The View. At one point Huntsman asked Hasselbeck, who mentions her Christianity and...

Who needs a man cave when you can have a WoCave?

That's the question Skinny Cow, the low-fat frozen-dessert brand owned by Nestle, is asking in a new promotion.

Customers who email or text a photo of their Skinny Cow product to the brand will be entered...

Contrary to the findings of a widely reported 2011 study indicating that binge eating affects men and women equally, most research on the subject shows that binge eating, like other eating disorders, predominantly affects women. Now a new study suggests that the difference may be biological.

As anyone who has visited a newsstand knows, Cosmopolitan magazine has a distinct way of writing cover lines. A glance at the May 2013 issue gives a nice taste:

"ORGASM GUARANTEED!"
"THE CRAZY LIE I TOLD TO GET A BOYFRIEND"

April 2013, too:

"HOW...

When I saw the photo below, of a young woman circa 1870 looking at herself in the mirror, it made me think of a passage in Joan Jacob Brumberg's book The Body Project: An Intimate History Of American Girls. Brumberg read girls' diaries from the nineteenth century and...

The New Yorker regularly publishes theme issues -- the Journeys issue, the Style issue, the Money issue, etc. -- but for the April 29, 2013 edition, the magazine seems to have a different theme.

Friday writer Ann Friedman took...

"I said my foot hurt, and he held up my foot, and we both just screamed bloody murder."

That's how Adrianne Haslet-Davis remembers the immediate aftermath of the explosions at the Boston Marathon on April 15. According to ABC News, Haslet-Davis, a ballroom dance instructor at the Arthur...

If, like us, you're having trouble motivating yourself to exercise this Sunday morning, here's a little inspiration for you. We cannot even believe the insane hula hooping skills Ohio native Rachael Lust shows off in the video above. She dances, she twirls, she appears to kick box inside the hoop...

Since the launch of a new ad Tuesday promising women, "You're more beautiful than you think," Dove has received both praise and criticism. In the ad, which continues the theme of the soap brand's ongoing Real Beauty campaign, a sketch artist draws women's faces based on...

Yes, men fake it, too. Experts have known this for years, and a couple of studies have shown it, but the practice certainly doesn't get the press that women faking it does.

Now one of those experts is out to raise awareness of this and other...

Well isn't this awesome. Sunday Redditor GiveMeBackMySon posted the following photo with the caption, "My sister's on a date. She sent me this from his bathroom."

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As Jessica Misener at Buzzfeed noted, the "j/k" at the end...

"I want Twin Peaks to be a place where, you know, my mom's comfortable here, where my neighbors can bring their kids and everybody can enjoy it."

So says Randy DeWitt, owner of the chain of "mountain sports lodge[s]" with locations in 16 states, in the promotional...

Friends, it's that time of year again. Summer advertising already isn't great to women -- are you bikini-ready? Do you have a summer hair strategy? -- but there's a niche focus in the seasonal marketing that I always find especially amusing, and it reached our inboxes...

It looks like a photo of a ballet dancer posing against a desert landscape, but it turns out there's much more to this photo.

See what looks like a white balloon just above her right hand? That's the cloud produced by one of several nuclear weapons tests the U.S....

"Peggy Olson, you are the song in my heart." "If I ever start a riot grrrl band, I'm calling it Sally Draper."

When season 6 of "Mad Men" premiered on AMC Sunday night, women on Twitter were ready -- with lots to say about the female characters in...