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Bat Wings and Muffin Tops: How Women Play into Their Own Body Shaming

Sheila Moeschen | Posted 05.02.2013 | Women
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Sheila Moeschen

Language is never inconsequential. It is too easy to let self-harm pass for comical self-deprecation.

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It's Not You, It's the Table

Paula Mangin | Posted 03.12.2013 | HuffPost Home
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Paula Mangin

The "table" just didn't look good on Jslow. Its awkwardly elevated height, cutting her off just below the boobs, produced a matronly, dowdy, squat silhouette

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Spandex: From Disco To Cure For The Midlife Muffin-Top

www.npr.org | Posted 12.12.2011 | Fifty
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When you think of spandex, 1970s disco mania may come to mind. Spandex came off the dance floor and into everyone's closet — stretchy leggings, jump...

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Flatten Your Belly!

Penny Love | Posted 10.20.2011 | Healthy Living
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Penny Love

Belly fat comes in two different forms. One is slightly annoying and fairly harmless.

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Love Your Muffin Top

Jean Fain, L.I.C.S.W., M.S.W. | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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Jean Fain, L.I.C.S.W., M.S.W.

"Muffin top" may have recently entered the Oxford English Dictionary, but that doesn't mean English-speaking dieters are any more eager to embrace this figure of speech to describe their figure.

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Muffintop: The New Feminine?

Susan Harrow | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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Susan Harrow

A woman should have a little pooch. It's part of what makes us womanly.

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