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Body Image Baby Steps (and an announcement!)
One of my most important missions in life is to help girls and women understand their value and rise up in the face of objectifying ideals that come from media and other people. Being an advocate for...
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Empowering or Objectifying: The Clashing Camps of Body Positivity
Because our culture teaches that women’s bodies and faces determine our worth, and that only certain rare bodies and faces are worthy of anything good, people who want empowerment for women are stuck...
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Empowerment, Body Positivity and the Internet: Podcast Interview
Some Backstory: I (Lindsay Kite) am an avid follower of Meghan Murphy, and after being particularly frustrated about sexualized imagery being embraced as the ultimate in empowerment for women, and...
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From Body Anxiety to Body Image Activism: Our Story
We are Lexie and Lindsay Kite, PhD, identical twins and co-directors of Beauty Redefined, a nonprofit working to help girls and women improve their body image and self-worth as they wade through...
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Your Body is Not a Before or an After
“Before and after” body transformation photos used to be relegated to late-night infomercials or old magazine fad diet ads, but now you can’t click on IG or FB without seeing the dramatic comparison...
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Are Body Positivity and Fitness Compatible?
If you want to improve your body image, but you have trouble prioritizing regular exercise … join the club! Lexie and I (BR co-directors) decided this week to renew our dedication to fitness. Not the...
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Help us #CuttheCarls Because Women are #MoreThanMeat
(This was originally posted in August 2014. We’re republishing as a refresher following Donald Trump’s selection of Carl’s Jr. CEO Andrew Puzder as U.S. Labor Secretary. See Puzder’s very telling...
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Stop Cheering for the Objectification of More Women
By Lindsay Kite, PhD, and Lexie Kite, PhD Simone Biles and Aly Raisman, Olympic gold medalist gymnasts and celebrated role models for young women, are featured in the upcoming 2017 Sports Illustrated...
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When “You Look So Skinny!” Does More Harm Than Good
By Lexie Kite, Ph.D. (Originally posted in Feb. 2014) 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,...
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How I’m Winning the Body-After-Baby Battle
By Lexie Kite, PhD My amazing baby girl, Logan, turned one this week. Having been fed a lifelong diet of how humiliating “bodies after babies” are and how important it is to “get your body back”...
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Not Picture Perfect? Bounce Back from a Body Image Blow
By Lindsay Kite, Ph.D. 1 New Notification: [Someone] added a photo of you. Oh wow. It’s not good. It’s so not good. Whatever the reason — bad angle, unflattering position, weird filter, googley eye,...
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Modest is Hottest? The Revealing Truth
By Lindsay & Lexie Kite, Ph.D. Originally posted Nov. 2011 and updated every time the modesty/dress code debate makes headlines! Current version: June 2017. Women and girls are more than just...
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When Curvy Appreciation Turns to Objectification
By Lindsay Kite, Ph.D. We don’t ever get too pumped about the latest viral body positivity stories, because we’ve found that if it’s quickly embraced by the masses, it probably doesn’t challenge the...
View ArticleOur TED Talk: Body Positivity or Body Obsession? How to See More and Be More
In September 2017, Beauty Redefined Co-director Dr. Lindsay Kite presented a TEDx talk at Kingsbury Hall in Salt Lake City, Utah. This 16-minute talk summarizes nine years of body image research and...
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Searching for Scraps of Power, One Swimsuit Pic at a Time
By Lindsay Kite, Ph.D. The most-liked pics of women on Instagram are the body-baring ones. When lifestyle bloggers post casual swimsuit pics of themselves in front of a cool brick wall — looking off to...
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Dress Codes Trying to Desexualize Girls are Actually Sexualizing Them More
By Lexie Kite, PhD and Lindsay Kite, PhD Church Prom Dress Code Boys: Tie and button shirt required. No low-rider pants. Girls: Sleeves should cover the shoulder and top of the arm. No cleavage...
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Save Your Girls From Instagram
By Lexie Kite, Ph.D. I know a 12-year-old girl who is the embodiment of our famous Beauty Redefined mantra: My body is an instrument, not an ornament. She is kind, innocent, active, and largely free...
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The Bikini Tyranny of Body Positivity
By Lindsay Kite, PhD How did wearing a bikini become the gold standard for demonstrating body positivity? Yes, every body is a bikini body if that’s what you really want to wear, but why are two-piece...
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Raising Girls with Better Body Image: FAQs
By Lexie Kite, Ph.D. Aunt Lindsay, 2-year-old Logan, and Mama Lexie Some of the most frequent questions we’re asked about body image revolve around teaching and raising young girls. The reasons why are...
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