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Vogue Mom Shows Us How NOT to Fight Childhood Obesity
The teaser on the cover for what’s being called the “worst Vogue article of all time” is unbelievably misleading: “A Mom Fights Childhood Obesity at Home.” The truth is, if the article’s author,...
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Why “Fitspiration” Isn’t so Inspirational
If you are on Facebook, Pinterest, or Twitter, you have seen fitness inspiration images just in time for “bikini season” to motivate you to “get fit” – we call them “fitspiration.” They are almost...
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TV Boosts Self-Esteem!…If you’re white and male.
Brand new research shows TV has a direct negative influence on girls’ and black boys’ self-esteem and a positive effect on white boys’. While we applaud media that promotes positive self-image for...
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Are YOU Beauty Redefined?
So are you? That depends. Are you beautiful? Yep, more than you know. Do you see the need for society’s ideas of “beauty” to be redefined? I sure hope so. If you can answer yes to both these...
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No Prince Charming Can Conquer Your Body Image Battle
When it comes to how you feel about your body, you’re not a damsel in distress. Yes, you might be a damsel and your body image might be in distress, but no dashing prince can rescue you from this...
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Photoshop Phoniness: Hall of Shame
Photoshopping, digital alteration, image manipulation, blah blah blah. Everyone talks about the fact that so many images of women are “perfected” with the help of technology, but do we really...
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Breaking News: Seventeen Wants You to Stop Obsessing About Your Appearance!
After about three months of some fantastic activism spearheaded by 14-year-old Julia Bluhm, a SPARKteam member, and a huge response from body image activists worldwide asking Seventeen Magazine to...
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Get Injections or Get Lost: Media’s Options for Women of a Certain Age
If you lived in a high-tech cave and everything you knew about humans came from mainstream media, you’d be shocked to find out a couple facts: 1) Female humans do not die or crawl into their own...
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Discuss: Where do you draw the line? In beauty, what enhances and what...
One of the most important and popular issues Lexie and I write and speak about is the idea of “physically photoshopping ourselves out of reality” by changing our appearances to fit profit-driven...
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Attention Utah: Come See Us in Action!
After nearly four years of speaking engagements hosted by schools, churches and organizations across the country, we are excited to finally host our own fundraising and speaking event right here on...
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Curvy is the New Skinny, Thanks to Photoshop Phoniness
The latest trend in image alteration might surprise a few people who are familiar with the power and pervasiveness of the thin ideal. Known as “reverse retouching,” this new trend has editors now...
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Modest is Hottest? The Revealing Truth
Women and girls are more than just bodies. But you wouldn’t know that if you looked to media, or even sometimes well-meaning religious rhetoric, for the truth about females. And you wouldn’t know that...
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You’re Not Pretty or Ugly Enough to Talk Body Image. Do It Anyway.
After several years of studying body image and writing/speaking about it publicly, the same brick wall loves to pop up and stifle any productive conversation about what we do: Our looks. Lexie and I...
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Holiday Survival Guide: Beauty Redefined Style
From body snarking to food comas and girly gift-giving, this is the go-to guide for all of your holiday body image woes! You know the scene. Family gathering. Aunts, uncles, cousins, distant family...
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Cellulite, Rimples and Dimples: A Beautiful Reality Check
It’s everywhere in real life and absolutely nowhere in TV, movies or magazines. It’s unrelated to health, yet constantly depicted as a sure sign of lazy slobbiness. The vast majority of women have...
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Want a Healthier 2013? Ditch the Weight Loss Resolutions!
Every new year, we come up with resolutions that often have a lot to do with how we look and little to do with real health and happiness. Profit-driven companies are busy bombarding us with slimy...
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Stick it to the Man! Or to the Mirror.
You are capable of much more than looking hot. Your reflection does not define your worth. There is more to be than eye candy. You are Beauty Redefined! You are are worthy of love, happiness, success,...
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Media Ideals: The Real True Hollywood Story
Note: This is an updated post from Feb. 2011 that is still, unfortunately, ridiculously relevant. After Lindsay’s post on the sketchiness of the BMI, lots of people seem to have breathed a sigh of...
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Shedding for the Wedding? Shed the Lies Instead!
“The big day.” Every bride gets one, and she is constantly reminded it’s all hers. But instead of setting apart one day to celebrate a happy new relationship, major industries have collided to make...
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Our Issue with Swimsuits (or lack thereof) in Sports Illustrated
On February 12, the 2013 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue hit the mailboxes of 70 million SI subscribers, every newsstand and media outlet, and hundreds of millions will view the thousands of...
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