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By now you probably have heard of the controversy over Thylane Loubry Blondeau, a 10 year old model who recently “graced” the pages of Vogue Paris. An absolutely beautiful girl, made up to look much older, to sell clothes to adult women.  Make sense? As a parent of a girl & a child dev specialist, [...]

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I spoke with Maggie McKay of KFWB in Los Angeles today about my book, Good Girls Don’t Get Fat and how girls can be terrible body bullies to themselves and others.  We chatted about fat talk, the body bully within, assets, and what we can do to help our girls embrace their strengths rather than [...]

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Here it is! Dr. Robyn Silverman's First-Ever Interview on Good Girls Don't Get Fat: How Weight Obsession is Messing Up Our Girls and How We can Help Them Thrive Despite It. It's that time of year.  The time of year when girls (and many boys too) are thinking about how they look and how others [...]

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FHM Magazine Says Men Like Curvy Women

by DrRobyn on April 9, 2008

The Brisbane Times reports that more Australian men will choose size 14 over size eight when it comes to the body shape of their ideal woman, igniting debate on what it means to be thin. Men’s magazine FHM conducted an online survey asking whether its readers found a size eight, size 12 or size 14 [...]

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