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Kendra Wilkinson Loves Her Pregnant Body. Now Begins the Countdown to the Postbaby Body Reveal.
Former "Girl Next Door" Kendra Wilkinson is on the cover of the new issue of InTouch Weekly dishing about how much she loves her pregnant body. Now we love a celebration of the curves, but forgive our cynicism when we predict that along with that little bundle of joy, there is another cover in the m
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Model Crystal Renn Gets Real About the Fashion Industry, Weight Pressures, and the Success that Came with Body Acceptance
For years, Crystal Renn was told that modeling success would come if she could manage to make herself thinner. Of course that has long been the party line of the fashion industry--lose the curves if you want to make any gains as a model. But, like most women who starve themselves to fit others' expe
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Win This Book! You'd Be So Pretty If...Teaching Our Daughters to Love Their Bodies--Even When We Don't Love Our Own
As a writer for Shape, Dara Chadwick documented her weight loss journey in a regular column for the magazine. She also began to notice how her focus on weight was affecting her then 11-year-old daughter. Chadwick took those observations and turned them into a body image guide that is a must-read for
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From "Pregorexia" to Pregnancy Weight Guidelines: Let's Talk About What Women Really Need
In a MomLogic story that has been burning up the blogs, mother Maggie Baumann discusses her bout with the media-invented term "pregorexia" (we've taken issue with all these "-exias" and "-mias" before). This is not to say that what Baumann experienced wasn't very real. She struggled throughout her p
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Tori Spelling Says New Moms Outside of Hollywood Don't Think About Losing Weight. We Say: Yeah, Right.
There are a lot of "she's anorexic!" accusations being thrown in Tori Spelling's direction these days. We're not going to speculate about what we don't know. We'll stick to commenting on what Tori says."I knew as soon as I left the house a week, even two weeks after giving birth, [to daughter Stella
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Forever 21 Launches Plus-Size Line (and Forces Model to Wear Embarrassing Hipster Headband)
Forever 21 has announced plans to launch a line of clothes in larger sizes, which will be in stores starting May 1st. The line is called Faith 21 (Hmmm, any connection to the bible verse printed on all their bags?) and will offer dresses and separates in size XL, 1X and 2X, and denim in up to a 34 (
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Win It: Feed Me! Writers Dish About Food, Eating, Weight, and Body Image
Magali has an essay in Feed Me!, a new anthology edited by Harriet Brown that includes Kate Harding, Courtney Martin, Amity Gaige, and many other talented writers. You can read an excerpt here.To celebrate the book's release, we're giving away a copy to one of our lucky readers. Here's how to enter.
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Dress Up: Joan Holloway Paper Dolls
We just heard that the cast of Mad Men picked up the Screen Actors Guild Award for best ensemble in a TV drama. Congratulations all around! We're itching to see what her curviness Christina Hendricks was rocking on the red carpet, but we did find something fun to pass the time while we're waiting. J
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Friends don't let friends "Fat Talk"
October 13-17 is Fat Talk Free Week, an initiative launched by Delta Delta Delta to get women to think about how our body bashing talk can keep us from the meaningful conversations and actions we really need in our lives. How do you deal with the "fat talk" in your life? Related:Sign the promise to
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Women who diet before pregnancy gain more weight during pregnancy
Women who count calories, cut carbs, and measure fat grams before pregnancy are more likely to overeat during pregnancy. UNC researchers asked 1,223 women who had just become pregnant about their previous dietary habits. Regardless of how they did it, all normal-weight, overweight, or obese women wh
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Vocab Rehab: Change Your Body Talk for the Better
We are two women with tons of body image baggage. We know how hard it is to avoid engaging in body talk--especially when those conversations seem to be common ground for so many women. Enter Vocab Rehab, our attempt to detox some of the most typical (and tricky) body conversations. We hope you'll ad
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The Olympics and Eating Disorders: Protecting the Health of Elite Athletes
It's almost time to let the games begin, but as controversy swirls around the hot topics of performance-enhancing drug use and gender testing at the Olympics, another major issue gets less attention from the officials: eating disorders.According to a study published last year in the Psychology of Sp