Underwear from American Apparel…$24
Elmo shirt from American Apparel…$14
Saving your daughter from being sexualized by American Apparel? Priceless.
I want you to think about a tween or teen girl that you love. Your daughter. Your niece. Your best friend’s little girl. She’s a good person, isn’t she? She has a lot to offer. She’s probably pretty talented, [...]
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Oh boy. Hold onto your body image! Considering the dreadful body image people already are coping with in America and in many western nations, we are no stranger to seeing skinny people think they’re fat. Now the Mayo clinic is confirming our fears– you can be skinny and fat at the same time.
A new report [...]
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People love to talk. Blah, blah, blah. When it comes to body image, weight, size, obesity, waify models and women, everything gets lumped up together into a convenient black and white argument where fat is bad and thin is good. Ridiculous.
Thank you, Kyle Smith, of the New York Post, for writing another article to fuel [...]
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder…accept when it comes to weight. Where do girls get the silly notion that gaining weight means they are ugly and will be excluded? Hmmmm. Well, as we are working to try and help our daughters understand that:
(1) Beauty comes from within
(2) Don’t judge a book by it’s [...]
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As we’ve been discussing open-mindedness and opening up a few cans of worms this month, I thought I’d bring another baffling issue to light. There has been a great deal of debate about a man, categorized as obese, who was recently a passenger on a plane when a flight attendant too this picture.
According to Kieran [...]
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I’ve been receiving several questions about Dads lately—especially in the context of divorce, and how important it is for mothers to encourage their girls to retain a relationship with their Dads. Even when there is animosity and frustration between parents, a strong relationship between Dads and Daughters is vital. Here I talk about why it’s [...]
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There must be people buying it. I mean, they wouldn’t be selling it if someone—no, a whole host of people, were buying it. Someone thinks it’s cute to dress their little girls up like their own portable “mini-me” replete with toddler bras, heavy make-up, and high heels. Is it time to get a grip? Anyone? [...]
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As the guest body image blogger for today’s End Fat Talk campaign for Fat Talk Free Week, I really got to thinking about the power of that little size zero in the lives of so many girls and women these days. Such a round number, and yet such a strong dictator of straight lines for [...]
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