body image

This Body of Mine

by beth January 27, 2012

::Watch­ing:: Lately, I have been watch­ing Oprah’s Next Chap­ter. I am always inter­ested in learn­ing more about those who are suc­cess­ful, their suc­cess and how they man­age their lives is intrigu­ing to me. I often feel like they have unlocked a mys­tery to life that I have not. They found out how to open the […]

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Ralph Lauren Model Fired For Being Too Fat

by beth October 14, 2009

Ok, if you have not seen this you have to. The model is Model Fil­ippa Hamil­ton and she was pho­to­shopped in the above ad to look thin­ner. Even though she’s already 5’10” and 120 pounds. Also, Hamil­ton said on the Today Show she was fired because she “couldn’t fit in their clothes any­more.” Although she’s been the […]

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ESPN Body Issue 2009: Beauty and Amputee

by beth October 7, 2009

Photo from ESPN cover for Body Issue I know that I’ve fea­tured sev­eral Glam­our Mag­a­zine pho­tos of nudes. This isn’t Glam­our. It’s one of the cov­ers for ESPN’s Body Issue hit­ting stands this Fri­day (Octo­ber 9th). And since I noticed the moves by Glam­our I wanted to show what ESPN was doing. Even if it’s like […]

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Glamour, Body Image, and the Loving Your Body Revolution.

by beth October 5, 2009

Photo by Matthias Vriens-McGrath in Novem­ber 2009 issue of Glam­our Glam­our mag­a­zine in its Novem­ber 2009 edi­tion, on stands now, has decided to fea­ture a spread of “plus sized” mod­els. I put quo­ta­tions around plus sized because in the mod­el­ing & fash­ion world that is really any­thing about a size 6. Talk about unre­al­is­tic standards […]

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