A HUGE step forward or back? ABC Family Show on Weight Loss Camp ABC Family is debuting a show called HUGE on Monday night and we are all waiting to see how the show is received and what we’re all going to think of it. As a body image expert, the author of Good Girls [...]
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In honor of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, it’s important to reflect on how we got ourselves into such a pickle in the first place. I mean, during this week we are not just talking about those girls, women, boys, and men who have clinical eating disorders. We’re talking about the pervasive disordered eating that [...]
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I’d Really Appreciate Your Help with Something that’s VERY Important… I’m writing a book and I NEED your stories to help parents and adults understand what to do and what NOT to do when it comes to girls and body image. The more you share the more everybody benefits! We all have stories from our [...]
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Dr. Robyn Silverman Jessica Simpson has been spotted ***gasp*** looking heavier than her ultra-skinny Dukes of Hazzard daisy-duke wearing self. Shall we call out the calvary? The farm? Has everyone gone insane? We just went through this whole thing with Jennifer Love Hewitt– didn’t we? Media outlets are shouting it from the roof tops– like [...]
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Halloween– Are People Making it A Big Fat Deal? Dr. Robyn Silverman Yay! Halloween! Candy! Chocolate bars! Healthy Food? Randi (my best friend), and I used to love getting dressed up for Halloween and collecting a large stash from all the neighbors. Mrs. Garvel (who lived next door) always had the biggest and best candy [...]
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Kevin Pease wrote a rebutal on Big Fat Blog after the backlash he took for writing a distasteful essay for his University paper. The topic centered around Disney World accommodating the growing waistlines of their patrons. I would like to start by saying everything I wrote in that article and here today was my doing, [...]
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“By keeping the ride boats slim, they could serve as a harsh reminder that obesity is a problem.” – Kevin Pease Thank you to BFB’s Paul, for bringing to light this article which pins obesity against Disney. The story: Disneyland is revamping its famous It’s a Small World ride due the expanding waistlines of many [...]
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This week was filled with some body image garbage. (1) My colleague Amy Jussel brought this fabulous story to my attention this week: Bimbo Bait: Is Silence or Outrage the Solution for Digital Drek? She says: “Just when you thought media influence on body image had reached the tipping point of toxicity, our pals at [...]
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