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Women and Body Image

The Naked Truth Behind Binge Eating Disorder

Leslie Goldman | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Binge Eating Disorder, Sunny Sea Gold, Glamour, Female-Body-Image, Women and Body Image, Binge Eating, Living News
Leslie Goldman

Despite the fact that Binge Eating Disorder is America's most common eating disorder, affecting more people than anorexia and bulimia combined, the disease doesn't generate the kind of media coverage it deserves.

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Kids Say The Darndest Things: "Your Butt Looks Sexy" Creepy? Or A Helpful Reminder I've Still Got It?

Stacie Krajchir | Posted 10.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Looking Sexy at Any Age, Sexy Women, Aging Gracefully, Women's Issues, Anti-Aging, Women and Body Image, Body Image, Living News
Stacie Krajchir

I hit the big "four O" last year and -- let's face it -- you start to question a few things when you get to that no-longer-in-my-thirties place in life.

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The Secret Dialog Of Women

Susan Harrow | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Healthy Eating, Lose Weight, Women's Rights, Comfort Eating, Women, Living News, Women's Issues, Weight Gain, Healthy Diet, Healthy Body, Mindful Eating, Diet, Childhood Eating Problems, Women and Body Image, Over-Eating, Stress Eating, Communication Between Men and Women, Eating Matters, Body Image, Women's Health, Health, Yo-Yo Dieting, Living in the Moment, Diet Advice, Eating Mindfully, Weight Loss, Health Tips, Women and Power, Powerful Women, National Eating Disorders Association, Eating Disorder Prevention, Living News
Susan Harrow

Weight loss coach Kathrine Brown's mission is helping women of power and influence who are holding themselves back. She does this by detecting the subtle sabotaging dialogs that decrease their power.

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Ralph Lauren Model: I Was Fired For Being Too Fat

Leslie Goldman | Posted 10.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Today Show, Fired, Ralph Lauren, Filippa Hamilton, Keira Knightley Airbrushing, Xeni Jardin, Modelling, Body Image, Eating Disorders, Paris Fashion Week, Photoshop, Women and Body Image, Entertainment News
Leslie Goldman

Did anyone ever actually look at this image and think, for even one millisecond, that it was real? Filippa Hamilton's body was manipulated to such an irrational extent that it ceases to look human.

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No Shirt, No Pants, No Problem: The Wardrobe of Melrose Place

Alexandra Sinderbrand | Posted 11.18.2009 | Style

Read More: Television, Ashlee Simpson, Fashion, Melrose Place, Slutty Costumes, Women and Body Image, Style News
Alexandra Sinderbrand

So maybe the promo shots for Melrose Place have to slut it out - their job is to get people to watch a nineties-era show, after all.

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Large and in Charge

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 11.09.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Depression, Colonialism, Hawthorne, Fat, Strunk and White, My Friend Baker, Glamour Magazine, Girls Body Image, Women and Body Image, Natives, Body Image, How-to-Speed-Up-Metabolism, Christianity, Religious Conversion, Metabolism, Poor Richard's Almanack, My Friend Emily, Chinese Food, Benjamin Franklin, Comedy News
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen

Whether you're colonizing natives in the New World or trying to keep women down without actually having to do anything, it's always good to make the people you control feel that everything is their idea.

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Harley Riding Chin Hair

Emily Bracken | Posted 11.09.2009 | Style

Read More: Women, Women's Issues, Style, Body Image, Women's Health, Pubic Hair, Beauty Industry, Beauty, Women and Body Image, Comedy, Hair, Facial Hair, Chin Hair, Style News
Emily Bracken

It's not something you'd notice from spitting distance, but if you look at me up close, you'd discover I have hair on my chin. Not blond wisps. Not peach fuzz.

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Marrying George Clooney - Beyond the Blurb

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 11.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Baby Boomers, Dementia, Women's Issues, Family Relationships, Women in Culture, Menopause, Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda, George Clooney, Women and Body Image, Amy Ferris, Women in Mid-Life, Marrying George Clooney, Robin Morgan, Women's Health, Women in the Media, The Women's Media Center, Living News
Marcia G. Yerman

Many of the issues Amy and I discussed in serious moments - family, relationships, and life changes - would find their way into Marrying George Clooney.

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Egg on the Face of the Alcohol Control Board of Alabama: Banning Bodies is So Passe

Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Alabama Alcohol Control Board, Sensuality, Alcohol, Sensual Art Gender Issues, Wine, Art Nouveau, Sensual Imagery, Censorship, Women and Body Image, Sexuality, Cycles Gladiator, Health, Business News
Danielle Cavallucci

I am loath to understand why, in this day and age, the female body is banned and blamed for its potential to incite unsavory behavior in what should be responsible adults.

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Muffintop: The New Feminine?

Susan Harrow | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress Eating, Muffintop, Living News, Over-Eating, Yo-Yo Dieting, Women and Body Image, Healthy Eating, Healthy Body, Mindful Eating, Eating Disorders, Health, Anorexia, Childhood Eating Problems, Diet Advice, Diet, Wellness, Bulimia, Muffin Top, Women, Women's Health, Weight Loss, Body Image, Eating Matters, Health Tips, Eating Mindfully, Unhealthy Diets, Lose Weight, Healthy Diet, Women's Issues, Obesity, Comfort Eating, National Eating Disorders Association, Weight Gain, Eating Disorder Prevention, Living News
Susan Harrow

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

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Hide Your Body, Hide Yourself

Susan Harrow | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress Eating, Living News, Over-Eating, Yo-Yo Dieting, Healthy Body, Eating Disorders, Anorexia, Childhood Eating Problems, Diet, Wellness, Bulimia, Eating Matters, Weight Loss, Health Tips, Body Image, Comfort Eating, Eating Disorder Prevention, Weight Gain, Lose Weight, Women and Body Image, Healthy Eating, Mindful Eating, Health, Diet Advice, Women, Women's Health, Eating Mindfully, Healthy Diet, Unhealthy Diets, Obesity, Women's Issues, National Eating Disorders Association, Living News
Susan Harrow

If you're always looking for ways to not be seen, how do you speak out? How do you move through the world if you have an invisible cloak that has no magical powers other than to keep you in your own shadow?

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What Would You Do If You Woke Up Tomorrow and You Were Beautiful?

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 08.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Asian American Identity, Looksism, Proposition 8, Women's Issues, Beautiful, LIFETIME Television, Women's Health, Margaret Cho, Eating Disorders, Drop Dead Diva, Beauty, Showtime, All American Girl, Women and Body Image, Gender, Living News
Marcia G. Yerman

Cho's All American Girl was replaced in the line-up by The Drew Carey Show. Cho pointed out that a double standard was at play. Why wasn't Carey, also a comedian, judged by his looks?

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Minding the Man in the Mirror

Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 08.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Michael Jackson, Eating Disorders, Body Image, Women and Body Image, People Magazine, Living News
Dr. Susan Albers

It is clear that at a certain point, Michael Jackson no longer saw himself as others did. This may be a feeling that is familiar to you, if you have an eating issue or struggle with your body image.

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Find Bikini Bliss

Jodi Lipper and Cerina Vincent | Posted 06.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Fitness, Swimsuit, Bikini, Memorial Day, Women and Body Image, Health, Body Image, Living News
Jodi Lipper and Cerina Vincent

Unfortunately, for many of us, the fear and trepidation that comes with the thought of going out in public in a bathing suit overshadows both the true meaning of this holiday.

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An Open Letter to Oprah

Darryl Roberts | Posted 05.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Harpo, Bulemia, Skinny, Self Esteem, Oprah, Yo-Yo Diet, Body Image, Fat, America the Beautiful, Winfrey, Weight, Diet, Amerexia, O Magazine, Women and Body Image, Oprah Winfrey, Weight Loss, Chicago-Illinois, Celebrity Body, Living News
Darryl Roberts

Oprah, for all of our sakes, stop the dieting on your show. It tells way too many women that it's okay to go on unhealthy yo-yo diets.

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How To Be A Menopause Goddess

Karen Leland | Posted 05.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Hot-Flashes, Women, Body Image, Women and Body Image, Botox, Menopause, Women's Health, Menopause Goddess, Living News
Karen Leland

In a recent dance class I attended, the teacher (a 30-something) instructed everyone to put their hands at the level of their chest. She demonstrated ...

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Not So Fast! Give Your Little Girl a Chance to Be a Little Girl

Len Simonian | Posted 05.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Toys, Girls, Dolls, Sex, Alcohol, Body Image, Drugs, Childhood, Sexy, Women and Body Image, Living News
Len Simonian

Guiding and protecting your daughter does not mean sheltering her in a bubble. It means not buying her the revealing short shorts that "all the other girls are wearing."

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YSL's Spring Shoe Collection: I Know Why The Caged Foot Sings

Beth Lapides | Posted 05.07.2009 | Style

Read More: Transparency, Semiotic Analysis of Fashion, YSL Cage Shoe, Shoes, Women and Body Image, Freedom, Style News
Beth Lapides

I'm wildly open to extreme fashion, in fact I long to live in a khaki free, T-shirtless, eccentrically dressed world, but this shoe set off all kinds of alarms for me.

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Scars Can Be Beautiful

Leslie Goldman | Posted 04.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Scars, NeverSayDiet.Com, Tahlia Brookins, America’s Next Top Model, Women, Body Image, Beauty, Women and Body Image, Living News
Leslie Goldman

I remember crying to me father one day, "No boy will ever want me. I'll never get married." He looked at me and said, "Why would you want to be with a man who cared how your scars look?"

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Women, Body Image and Blogging

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 03.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Women, Women's Issues, Anorexia, Body Image, Health, Women's Health, Eating Disorders, Weight Loss, Obesity, Bulimia, Women and Body Image, Wellness, Living News
Irene Rubaum-Keller

Our society places an enormous amount of emphasis on women's clothing, weight and age. As women, we can choose to ignore this or cave and adhere to strict standards of beauty.

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Feminism Online

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 03.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Women's Advocacy, Blogosphere, Aauw, Shireen Mitchell, Women's Issues, Bloggers, Culturekitchen, Bush Era, Pop Culture, Now, Womanist, Human Infrastructure, Feminism, Women and Body Image, Carolyn Maloney, Web 2.0, Technorati, Linkfluence, Stimulus Package, Women and Hollywood, Women's Health, New Media, Feminist Majority, Progressive Community, Technology, National Women's History Museum, Momsrising, Fem2.0, Blogher, Feministe, Racialicious, Media News
Marcia G. Yerman

To me, the key to the Fem2.0 conference on February 2 was to mashup, interact, and expand the dialogue.

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You can Recover from Chronic Dieting

Colleen Perry | Posted 03.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Starvation, Recovery, Needs, Relationships, 12 Steps, Chronic Dieting, Eating Disorders, Weight Loss, Non Violent Communication, Overeating, Women's Issues, Female Body Image, Girls Body Image, Women and Body Image, Women's Health, Body Image, Health, Living News
Colleen Perry

If you haven't addressed the "why" for overeating in the first place, you will most likely go back to your old way of eating.

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Lose Weight and Stay Warm with Tea

Dr. Eric Braverman | Posted 08.27.2009 | Home

Read More: Womens Bodies, Healthy Eating, Healthy Living, Braverman, Diet Tips, Healthy Lifestyle, Teas, Weight Loss Tips, Weight, Drinking Tea, How to Lose Weight, Drinking, Women and Body Image, Body Image, Health, Green Drinks, Weight Loss, Health Tips, Tea, Home News
Dr. Eric Braverman

The benefits of drinking tea add up fast; they include weight loss, a lower risk of cancer and heart disease, and bacteria prevention. If you get into the habit, will improve your health for years to come.

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Do You Think Michelle Obama Needs to Lose Weight?

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 02.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Healthy Eating, Weight Loss, Michelle Obama Style, Michelle Obama, Obesity, Michelle Obama First Lady, First Lady, Body Image, Womens Bodies, Health, Fat, Female Body Image, Girls Body Image, Women and Body Image, Living News
Irene Rubaum-Keller

Michelle is a perfect role model for all women. She looks like a strong, fit, self-assured woman who can take on anyone she needs to. She is what our culture barely has words for, "normal-weighted".

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How to Free Yourself From Dieting - Step 2

Colleen Perry | Posted 02.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Grief Work, Therapy, Body Acceptance, Anorexia, Thinness, Dieting, Eating Disorders, Dietician, Obesity, Women and Body Image, Hypnotherapy, Health, Happiness, Living News
Colleen Perry

Often, chronic dieting or the development of an eating disorder is a mask for feelings in your life over which you sense you have no control; depression, anxiety, or loss. Your body becomes a battleground.

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