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You Had a Baby? This is How You Get Your Body Back!
If you haven’t seen an ad on how to “get your body back!” after giving birth or seen a “news” story on how some celebrity new mom “got her body back,” you have not LIVED! Seriously, it means you are...
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Want a Healthier You? Ditch the Weight Loss Resolutions!
How often do you come up with health goals that often have a lot to do with how you look and little to do with real health and happiness? Profit-driven companies are busy bombarding us with slimy...
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Where Do You Draw the Line? In Beauty, What Enhances and What Oppresses?
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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Where My Girls At? This Infographic Says It All.
We are sending a big shout-out to the New York Film Academy for taking a closer look at women in film and what, if any, advancements women are making. In a study of how women are portrayed in the top...
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Victoria’s Secret War on Women. Nothing Sexy About It.
One of the things we at Beauty Redefined hate most in this world–even more than Bratz dolls or people asking if we’ve seen the latest Dove video–is when companies try to commodify girl power or...
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So Much for Your “Body Peace Treaty,” Huh Seventeen?
If you needed any more ammunition to fuel your boycott of Seventeen magazine and your fight for media literacy for all, let this month’s cover be the final blow. The magazine features “Pretty Little...
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Beauty Redefined Speaking Tour!
See the full tour packet of information by clicking this image! We are excited to announce a speaking tour for Beauty Redefined for Spring 2014-’15! We (Lindsay Kite and Lexie Kite, co-directors of...
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Vanity Fair-Skinned Only? The Race Issue in the “Hollywood Issue”
VF Hollywood Issue 2010 I guess the last few years of backlash weren’t enough to convince Vanity Fair to stop whitewashing beauty out of its pages. Here’s a refresher: the “Fresh Faces of 2010”...
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To Him I Was An Object: Sexual Assault and Body Image
“To him I was an object.” That’s how Elizabeth Smart — who was kidnapped at age 14 and raped daily for 9 months — describes her kidnapper’s perception of her. To view or treat someone as an object, or...
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Sticky Note Vote! Help Us Choose Our New Slogan
UPDATE! After hundreds of votes were cast, it’s time to debut our newest sticky note! (Hint: It might be a combo of two sticky notes many of you suggested, you geniuses!) It’s time to plaster these...
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Dove Doesn’t Redefine Beauty, It Reinforces It
One of the things we hate most in this world is when companies try to commodify self-esteem to sell products to girls and women. And this time it’s hitting really close to home. Dove just debuted...
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When “You Look So Skinny!” Does More Harm Than Good
POP QUIZ: If you know a girl or woman who has lost weight but you don’t know how or why she did it, what do you do? A: Compliment, compliment, compliment! The more praise about her hot new bod, the...
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Loving Your Body 101: The 3 Questions of Positive Body Image
The comments section of anything body image-related proves there is LOTS of confusion around the idea of “loving your body.” This Valentine’s Day, show your body some love too! Please pin, share, and...
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#Unapologetic: Barbie and Sports Illustrated Teach Sexual Objectification for...
If you were an evil mastermind that wanted to convince the world that girls and women were only on earth as decorative ornaments to be looked at and lusted over, what would you do? How would you...
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Why Breast Implants Are Not “For You”
“I did it so I could feel better about my body. I did it so I could feel more like a woman. I did it so my clothes would fit better. I did it for ME.” This is the text of a current TV commercial for...
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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...
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Mind the (Thigh) Gap
Ever heard the phrase “Mind the gap?” It’s a warning to train passengers to take caution while crossing the gap between the train door and the station platform that began in London. Today, it’s time...
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Photoshopping: Altering Images and Our Minds
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 we can’t just toss...
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Selfies and Self-Objectification: A Not-So-Pretty Picture
Selfies aren’t inherently evil. And taking 55 pictures of your own face at slightly different angles and with varying expressions is not fundamentally wrong. BUT (you knew that was coming) … when we...
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Thinness, Happiness and the Illusion of Control: Let Your Heart Break
By Geneen Roth (Originally published here.) When you accept that hurting and healing are part of living, you can give up the fantasy that being thin controls your happiness. His name was David, and I...
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