Are you a member of the Fat-Talkin’ Club? There are chapters…worldwide. It’s Fat Talk Free Week and, like every year, we are being challenged to drop the fat talk between friends. This can be a tall order for many. Why? Because fat-talking has become a habit and a bona fide, integrated component of many friendship [...]
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No doubt many of you remember my teen blogger, Rebecca Tishman, who has shared with you many moments as she recovers from her eating disorder and body image struggles. In honor of Fat Talk Free Week and to honor those who are still struggling with their own eating disorders, Rebecca has written about staring fat [...]
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What’s going on with girls and body image? A fifth of teen girls in Britain admit that they “can’t bare to look at themselves in the mirror” according to a new survey of 1000 girls between the ages of 12 and 18 years. Two-thirds want to lose weight and 63% feel that they are under [...]
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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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A powerful video for a powerful cause: The health, wellbeing, high self worth, and positive body image of our girls and…us as valuable women of this world. We have achieved so much to push ourselves down, criticize ourselves and whisper in our own ears in the quiet of our minds that we are not enough, [...]
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