First Magazine is looking for women who want to share body confidence stories.
One of the stories is about a gift that helped boost a woman’s body confidence.
The other is about a family tradition that help’s a woman feel good about her body.
The women who are featured in these stories will be professionally styled and photographed […]
“Keira Knightley has refused to allow any enhancement of her cleavage on publicity photos for her upcoming movie, “The Duchess,” Britain’s Daily Mail reports via The Huffington Post.
Good. For. Keira! I agree, you ARE good enough as you are.
Photo source: The Huffington Post, publicity stills for “King Arthur” before and after digital enhancement.
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I HATE my . . .
Did you hear the echo of women everywhere responding with the speed of light?
Fat legs, flabby stomach, beaky nose, round eyes, thin lips, bulgy cheeks, flat breasts and on and on.
Last night I was indulging in trashy television, which I allow myself to do when my daughter isn’t […]
In the same vein as the Normal Breasts Gallery, which I wrote about earlier this week on both Blog Fabulous and Empowering Girls: So Sioux Me, we have The Shape of a Mother.
Both galleries are beautiful and artful acts of passive resistance to the media message “You’re not good enough.”
Real mothers have boldly […]
This is virtual Tracee. You can go to VirtualModel.com and put together your own you. I saw this on someone’s website where they were visualizing their ideal weight using a smaller virtual model. The first one is what I look like now at around 167 (I gained back 8 pounds by quitting the gym temporarily to […]
Did you check out Nancy Maskin on Oprah?
She weighed in at 703 pounds and lost 530 of them. She was a shut-in for 12 years.
Her miracle? The Internet.
Because people couldn’t see her, they couldn’t dismiss her. It was her first contact with the outside world in which she wasn’t invisible. Through people in political chat rooms that […]
This is an apt description of the body image issues women face. I worry about my daughter, but I also know the devastating effect this type of media onslaught has on the grown women I know. We reduce women to things. Are you a pretty thing or an ugly thing?
Guess what? We’re not things. We’re […]
My husband and I are doing Bob Greene’s The Best Life Diet. Of course, I saw it on Oprah. Whatever you think about Oprah, and hopefully you love and adore her as I do, she is definitely the most public dieter on the planet. This qualifies her as a diet expert in my opinion and I’m […]
Star Jones, formerly of The View, tells all in the first person on Glamour.com. It’s a raw look at the emotional after-effects of gastric bypass surgery, and why she was trying to keep it private while on The View. She’s lost 160 pounds in three years.
Four years later, I have been successful in maintaining a healthy weight […]
What’s wrong with this picture? Nothing! Except the message of the Brazilian advertiser for fat free yogurt.
The message is that you should eat fat free yogurt so that you don’t look like this fat woman.
I think this woman is hot. I think she’s sexy. I’m a huge advocate of Dove’s Campaign For Real Beauty method […]
Wow, Rosie quit after the argument I guess. I would have written about it before, but I didn’t hear about it until I had gone for my Memorial Day weekend away (I time stamped my blogs, just as they prerecorded The View. But, I’m back now.)
I guess they have prerecorded two weeks of The View, […]
Did everyone see Oprah yesterday? About the battered women and what staying in this type of situation does to their children?
I know this column will reach a battered woman, because according to the US Justice Department, 30 percent of women are beaten by a significant other at one time or another.
This is an issue very […]
This New Year’s Day will be the 2nd anniversary of the launch of my stationery business, The Pet Set.
A person with a healthy sense of self-esteem might look at that personal milestone as an exhilarating acheivement.
How do I view this upcoming date? With utter panic and fear.
Why?
Why would a person who left Corporate America […]
A while back, I posed the question Should I go back to work?. At the time, that was a rhetorical question; now I believe it to be more resonant.
I think the answer is yes…but as I alluded to in my previous post, there are significant obstacles that I must face:
1. Two years […]
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