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    Liz Brody

    Liz Brody

  • All-over beauty: The easiest way to get gorgeous skin from head to toe

    While most of us make at least some effort to keep the skin on our faces clean, moisturized, and well-maintained, the rest of our bodies, and any specific skin issues, often fall into a state of at least semi, if not full-on, neglect.That's a big beauty blunder, according to experts-since the skin,

  • What Online Dating Sites Don't Want You to Know

    In the 10 seconds it takes to click around the dating sites, your small man-pool can expand into a teeming ocean: It's a fact. Match.com has MORE dates, relationships and marriages MORE than any other site, reads the site's homepage.

  • Celebs Who Think They're Ugly? Give us a break

    <img src="http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/blogs/partner/mr_f2349c57b88e01.jpg" align="right" width="290" height="400" alt="" > <p> <span>How many ways can you skin a woman's confidence? For years, we've lived with ads featuring models too gaunt to menstruate, and more recently,</span> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://shine.yahoo.com/event/fallbeauty/image-of-ultra-thin-ralph-lauren-model-sparks-outrage-521480/"><span>without enough of a waist to actually breathe</span></a> (<span>thank you, rambo Photoshopping). But now we've got a whole new level of feel-bad messaging.</span> </p> <p> <span>Have you noticed the growing number of impossibly attractive stars who say they don't feel (insert a shrug of shoulders here) that hot? No, they see themselves, as plain or dumpy, as in,</span> <span><a rel="nofollow" href="http://clutch.mtv.com/2010/10/06/oh-shut-up-already-8-sexy-celebs-who-insist-theyre-not-sexy/">"I don't think I'm a sexy</a></span><span>, beautiful woman. I look like Ted Nugent in a black wig." If Megan Fox can utter those words with a straight face, where on earth does that leave the rest of us?</span> </p> <p> <span>Maybe this "nah shucks" stuff is some new form of reverse bragging, a media-savvy version of, "don't hate me because I'm beautiful." Or maybe these stars honestly feel they're not up to snuff. Whatever way you spin it, this is not a healthy trend for any of us.</span> </p> <p> <span>Erin Matson puts it a little more bluntly than I have. "I believe Photoshop is being used as a weapon of mass destruction," says the 30-year-old action vice president of the</span> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nowfoundation.org/">National Organization for Women,</a> <span>which is hosting Love Your Body Day on October 20th (</span><a rel="nofollow" href="http://loveyourbody.nowfoundation.org/">check it out)</a>. <span>Matson says there's nothing woo-woo about it. As women, she believes, it is essential to fight back against the rampant down-putting of our bodies. We must do this in the name of equality, she says, and in some sense, to save our lives.</span> </p> <p> <span>Her passion is catchy because she speaks from the heart, having almost died of anorexia. After three hospitalizations that ended in her getting kicked out of treatment ("they told me I was continuing to lose weight, and I couldn't commit suicide under their watch"), what saved her was feminism. "I came to the conclusion that my eating disorder was a response to a culture that consistently undervalues women and suggests that we take up less space," she says.</span> </p> <p> <span>If Matson's story is extreme, the same pressures affect us all, whether we feel too small or too large, inadequately flat-chested or unhappily hippy. "If you feel crummy about your body, don't be ashamed," she urges. "You are not the problem. Society is. Just remember, however much space you take up, you <i>deserve</i> to take up."</span> </p> <p> <span>When I ask Matson how we can start to fix this, she suggests what she calls a radical act. And that might be...? "Decide," she says (and this is genius), "to love yourself as you are."</span> </p> <p> <span>Here are some celebs who should take that advice:</span> </p> <br> <br> <i>What do you think? When hot celebs complain, does it make it harder for all of us?</i> <br> <br> <br> Here are a few more ideas to show your body some love: <br> <br> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://shine.yahoo.com/event/loveyourbody/3-ways-to-love-your-body-in-under-an-hour-2089704/">3 Ways to Love Your Body in Under an Hour</a> <br> <br> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://shine.yahoo.com/event/bikini/5-ways-to-heart-your-derriere-2177541/">5 Ways to Heart Your Derriere</a> <br> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://shine.yahoo.com/event/bikini/5-ways-to-heart-your-derriere-2177541/"></a><a rel="nofollow" href="http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/health/4-body-parts-that-make-us-self-conscious-and-how-to-love-them-2153485/;_ylt=ApwnTGnikfAEFL.DmHBOERm5g6U5">4 Other Body Parts-and how to love them</a> <br> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/health/4-body-parts-that-make-us-self-conscious-and-how-to-love-them-2153485/;_ylt=ApwnTGnikfAEFL.DmHBOERm5g6U5"></a><span><a rel="nofollow" href="http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/health/dear-belly-i-think-it-is-time-to-put-an-end-to-all-this-hating-business-1410771/;_ylt=AuvH3TXUzMtz4qALuHz1Day5g6U5">Dear Belly, It's Time To Stop All This Hating Business</a></span> <br> <br> <br> [photo credit: Getty Images]

  • Yoga—what is it, exactly?

    Should a Christian do the Downward Dog?This is not a trick question, but rather an issue raised by Baptist leader Albert Mohler that, like an egg beater, has whipped up the yoga community's usual calm into a peaked, frothy fluster. Then again, aren't we all a bit confused about this body-bending, mi

  • 6 surprising signs of depression

    Here's a "what-if" scenario: Your husband starts working late every night, you forget the last time you were physically intimate, and he seems to have lost interest in you. Shall we cut to the chase? The guy's having an affair. Slam dunk, change your Facebook status.Maybe not. These signs are some o

  • An Eye Opener on Teenage Sex

    Will "Teen Mom" die on the cable vine? According to a new study of 5,865 Americans, the most responsible lovers in this country are kids.

  • Going Cohab? 8 survival tips for staying together

    The Container Stores must be doing a brisk business. According to the latest statistics, more couples than ever are bypassing the altar in favor of blending their possessions and shacking up.New figures from the U.S. Census Bureau show that in 2009, marriage plunged to an all-time low, accounting fo

  • What Makes a Man Good in Bed?

    Ladies, we need to get down to brass tacks. The question is: how to tell a guy's lovemaking potential before you ever see the insides of his socks. Scientists don't study this, so it's up to us.

  • Baby, it's Ex Love—what's up with all these born-again couples?

    Is Hollywood in Retrograde? Every day, it seems, another pair of broken-up stars are Rubber-Cementing themselves into a couple again. We've got the new OK Magazine cover: "I'm back with John!" Note the sunny yellow printwith Jen Aniston flipping a grin as she throws a backward glance (subliminal bod

  • 12 Beauty Secrets from Around the World

    Global Travel Advisory: Take your envy meds.

  • Are Guys More Freaked Out Over Sex Than We Are?

    I was still in my pajamas this morning (don't ask what time) when I turned on the computer to find it was National Unmarried and Single Americans Week.Who knew? But apparently September 19 to 25 has been set aside to honor the more than 100,000 adult solo citizens of this country. It occurred to me

  • 5 expert secrets to looking younger than you are

    Fabulous hair, a great plastic surgeon, personal trainers, stylists, and chefs who make house calls-when it comes to maintaining a youthful appearance, it's true, celebs have it easier than the rest of us. But, never fear, our panel of experts revealed a surprising number of ways to defy your age, a

  • How to look gorgeous, no matter what your skin type

    Flaky? Slick? Sensitive? Irritable? What's your sign?Dermal sign, that is. The skin has its own zodiac of sorts, but you hardly need to consult your horoscope for a good reading. We've gathered a few earthly experts to help each type look its most radiant.

  • You're My Skype. Long Distance Love 2.0

    "I'm on top," Drew Barrymore purrs in her best slut voice.

  • Online Dating—A Total Waste of Time? Here's what YOU say!

    "Profile on the rocks, please!" This is the new rallying cry of singles, according to Shine's new Online Dating Survey, conducted by Dan Ariely, PhD, a professor at Duke University. "I was a bit surprised," he admits.

  • Early Puberty for Girls—more "bad mother" science?

    A new study is causing a saber-rattle throughout the mom-o-sphere."Working moms, here's another side effect of your selfish, career-focused ways: your daughters will go through puberty much earlier than their well-raised peers," writes Madeline Holler on Babble.

  • 10 Ways to Scope Out a Guy By How He eBays

    The first sign was a top hat.

  • A Lady Dies in Boyfriend's Chimney (where do we start?)

    The case is closed.

  • How to Extend Your Summer Glow

    MJ Day knows what it's like to milk the sunkissed, hair-tousled, beachy look of August for all it's worth. She works 12 months a year on the Sports Illustrated Swimwear Issue, where she's a senior associate editor. "We pay makeup artists a lot of money to keep the girls nice and dewy while making it

  • Dear Elin, Don't be Blindsided Again (10 Signs He'll Soon Be Out the Door)

    Elin Nordegren, you are our Celebrity Breakup poster girl. Everyone is raving about the way you kept your delicate hands out of the muck, aced your divorce, and iced out the press-well, until your new People exclusive. But speaking of that interview, when you say of Tiger's shack jobs, "I never susp