body confidence

    • Plus-size model Manon Edwards on wearing white shorts and crop top: I used to be 'scared to wear that kind of outfit'
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      Cindy Arboleda

      Plus-size model Manon Edwards on wearing white shorts and crop top: I used to be 'scared to wear that kind of outfit'

      Curvy model Manon Edwards used fashion as a way of finding self-love.

    • Lingerie brand turns London street into a body-confidence catwalk
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      Marie Claire Dorking

      Lingerie brand turns London street into a body-confidence catwalk

      Lingerie brand Bluebella recruited 19 fans of the brand to strut their stuff down Oxford Street’s makeshift catwalk dressed in nothing but their skimpy skivvies, the day before the opening of London Fashion Week.

    • Mom writes inspiring post about her '4th trimester' mom bod
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      Maggie Parker

      Mom writes inspiring post about her '4th trimester' mom bod

      On a quest to make "motherhood — and ... womanhood — normal again," Kaci Dean explains the term "fourth trimester" she used in a Facebook post.

    • This plus-size model's career began on a dare
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      Gordon Hurd

      This plus-size model's career began on a dare

      Yazmin Fox started her plus-size erotic modeling career when a friend dared her to post a photo online.

    • Jamie Otis shares postpartum body photo, just three days after giving birth
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      Jessica Ankomah

      Jamie Otis shares postpartum body photo, just three days after giving birth

      The "Married At First Sight" star and her husband Doug Henher welcomed daughter Henley Grace into the world last week.

    • Curvy model posts powerful comparison to smaller woman only to be cyberbullied
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      Maggie Parker

      Curvy model posts powerful comparison to smaller woman only to be cyberbullied

      Believe it or not, a swimsuit shot can do a lot. Which is why plus size model and influencer Alexa Phelece posted a split-screen photo on Instagram of herself and another model wearing the strappy one-piece. “So here we have two girls in the same swimsuit.

    • Plus-size Instagrammer shares body-positive post: 'I am my own body goals'
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      Yahoo Beauty

      Plus-size Instagrammer shares body-positive post: 'I am my own body goals'

      Liz Black is a plus-size, body-positive fashion writer, who struggled with accepting her body for years. She now says that her own body — not someone else's — is her #bodygoals.

    • Plus size blogger claps back at TV producers asking her to lose weight
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      Nisean Lorde

      Plus size blogger claps back at TV producers asking her to lose weight

      "Our bodies deserve to be visible without assumption that we are working to get thinner."

    • Ariel Winter’s Estranged Mother Thinks She Needs To 'Dress Properly'
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      Hayley FitzPatrick

      Ariel Winter’s Estranged Mother Thinks She Needs To 'Dress Properly'

      Actress Ariel Winter has spoken publicly about her desire to dress the way she likes, her confidence in her own body, and her disinterest in critics of her personal style. But one person related to the 19-year-old Modern Family star is still interested in weighing in on it.

    • Model Iskra Lawrence Details Everything Fake About ‘Heavily Retouched’ Old Photos of Her 
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      Elise Solé

      Model Iskra Lawrence Details Everything Fake About ‘Heavily Retouched’ Old Photos of Her 

      Curvy model Iskra Lawrence is putting herself in the hot seat by sharing “heavily” retouched photos from her early modeling days.

    • ‘Swimsuit’ Stunner Kate Upton Says She’s ‘Still Not Confident in a Bathing Suit’
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      Donna Freydkin

      ‘Swimsuit’ Stunner Kate Upton Says She’s ‘Still Not Confident in a Bathing Suit’

      Kate Upton has been on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue three times. But she still has her off days, she's the first to admit.

    • Woman With Alopecia Rocks Her Baldness With Confidence, Especially on Her Wedding Day
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      D.L. Chandler

      Woman With Alopecia Rocks Her Baldness With Confidence, Especially on Her Wedding Day

      Since alopecia has caused hair loss across her body, Kylie Bamberger has embraced her condition with confidence, refusing to hide her baldness — most especially on her wedding day. Kylie Bamberger took a stand for herself many years ago after alopecia struck in high school. The condition, in which one’s immune system mistakenly attacks hair follicles, causes hair loss across the body.

    • This fitness blogger hasn't shaved her body hair in over a year
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      Jessica Ankomah

      This fitness blogger hasn't shaved her body hair in over a year

      As a body builder, she regularly shares fitness regimes and body transformation photos on Instagram. In a bid to become “more comfortable in herself,” she’s decided to stop shaving her body hair — and is encouraging other women to do the same.

    • This woman turned body-shaming comments into a work of art
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      Jessica Ankomah

      This woman turned body-shaming comments into a work of art

      Fed up dealing with the insults of body-shamers online, New York journalist Laura Delarato is fighting back by taking the cruelest and lewdest remarks she’s received and turning them into thought-provoking art. In a photo series she calls The Comments Project, Delarato collects the words of her attackers and pastes them onto pictures of her naked body — highlighting everything wrong with how so many people perceive plus-size women. To further illustrate her point, Delarato published a visual project on Refinery29 exploring why plus-size women still aren’t considered “sexy” by mainstream society.

    • World's first albino model talks smashing beauty standards: 'People want you to feel different'
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      Jessica Ankomah

      World's first albino model talks smashing beauty standards: 'People want you to feel different'

      Before the rise of diversity, the world struggled celebrating true individualism — but albino model Connie Chiu helped dispel beauty myths with her one-of-a-kind photos, taken in the early 1990s. Born in 1969, Chiu was launched into the fashion industry at age 24. According to NOAH, Albinism is “an inherited genetic condition that reduces the amount of melanin pigment formed in the skin, hair and/or eyes.” Chiu, who grew up in Hong Kong, was told by her parents at a young age she was “different,” with “light-sensitive” skin and eyesight, but that didn’t stop her family from allowing her to feel included.

    • Woman with vitiligo turns her skin condition into a work of art
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      Jessica Ankomah

      Woman with vitiligo turns her skin condition into a work of art

      Ashley Soto was 12 years old when she was diagnosed with vitiligo, a disease that causes the skin to lose pigment. “I was so shocked that someone said that to me that I cried and cried, I didn’t want to have the condition any more,” Soto told The Daily Mail. Setting up little challenges for herself, in order to get more comfortable with the condition, Soto discovered the unique beauty of vitiligo.

    • Woman calls out H&M sizing after having to go up four dress sizes from her usual 12 to a 20
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      Marie Claire Dorking

      Woman calls out H&M sizing after having to go up four dress sizes from her usual 12 to a 20

      Shopping on the High Street can often feel a little like playing a game of sizing roulette. It’s a familiar scenario most of us can relate to, but while some degree of size variation is to be expected, having to go up a whole four dress sizes? Eventually after trying on the dress in a size 20, four sizes up from her actual size, it finally fitted.

    • Bride: 'I looked like Quasimodo on my wedding day’
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      Nisean Lorde

      Bride: 'I looked like Quasimodo on my wedding day’

      It’s common for couples to have insecurities come wedding day — such as reconsidering the perfect wedding dress or dapper tux because, all of a sudden, the size is just wrong. “We pictured a quintessential West Coast wedding, inviting our families to celebrate with us, and our midwife to perform the ceremony,” wrote Amie, a mother of three and founder of Mommy’s Inside Voice, a blog about nurturing realness and honest parenthood.

    • Demi Lovato Shares Selfie Wearing Skintight Jumpsuit
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      Maggie Parker

      Demi Lovato Shares Selfie Wearing Skintight Jumpsuit

      Demi Lovato shared a selfie on Instagram in which she wears a sexy jumpsuit, reminding us of Catwoman and Poison Ivy. Combine Catwoman and Poison Ivy, and you’ve got Demi Lovato in an amazing jumpsuit. The singer posted a mirror selfie on Instagram on Feb. 15 in a seriously sexy jumpsuit, and it’s already received almost 2 million likes, becoming one of her most popular selfies to date.

    • Emily Ratajkowski Calls Out Journalist for Slut-Shaming Melania Trump
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      Kristine Solomon

      Emily Ratajkowski Calls Out Journalist for Slut-Shaming Melania Trump

      The unabashedly political Emily Ratajkowski wore a pink pantsuit to a NYFW 2017 event. Melania Trump has an unlikely celebrity in her corner. Model, actress, and outspoken body-confidence and feminist advocate Emily Ratajkowski is stepping up to defend the first lady against a slut-shaming attack she claims she recently overheard.

    • A Young Woman Is Being Body-Shamed by a Breitbart Editor — and a Wisconsin Sheriff
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      Kristine Solomon

      A Young Woman Is Being Body-Shamed by a Breitbart Editor — and a Wisconsin Sheriff

      On Jan. 21, more than 1 in 100 Americans took part in women’s marches throughout the country to oppose threats against women’s rights and make their voices heard. About half a million of those people were in Washington, D.C. — and one of those participants was Elizabeth Flora of Southport, N.C.

    • Internet bullies fat shame plus-size blogger's honeymoon photos
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      Nisean Lorde

      Internet bullies fat shame plus-size blogger's honeymoon photos

      Callie Thorpe, a plus-size columnist for Marie Claire, was having the time of her life honeymooning in Tulum Beach, Mexico. Among other insults, she was compared to a “whale” and questioned about how she fit into her wedding dress (we’ll spare you the particulars).

    • Peta Murgatroyd shares post-pregnancy snap: ‘I left the hospital looking five months pregnant’
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      Nisean Lorde

      Peta Murgatroyd shares post-pregnancy snap: ‘I left the hospital looking five months pregnant’

      Peta Murgatroyd is getting candid about the realities of a post-pregnancy body. The “Dancing with the Stars” beauty recently shared a selfie on Instagram of her standing akimbo, hand on hip, with her stomach slightly protruding in a bra and black tights. “I took this photo 8 days post birth.

    • Meet the 61-year-old proving age doesn't have to be a boundary to beauty
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      Marie Claire Dorking

      Meet the 61-year-old proving age doesn't have to be a boundary to beauty

      For most of us, the very thought of posting a nude selfie to Instagram would bring us out in a cold sweat and have us diving for the nearest cover-up. But not Yazemeenah Rossi. The model, visual artist, and self-portrait photographer has been busy sharing beautiful yet tasteful naked pictures of herself in stunning locations with only a strategically placed scarf to hide her modesty. And boy does she look amazing.

    • Plus Size Model Robyn Lawley Shows That Angles Are Everything
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      Kristine Solomon

      Plus Size Model Robyn Lawley Shows That Angles Are Everything

      Robyn Lawley, a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue star and the first plus-size model to be shot for Australian Vogue, demonstrated that angles can change everything when she posted two selfies to her Instagram on Thursday. Lawley spoke out to Sports Illustrated calling the one-size-fits-all body-image standard “stupid” and talking about how she intends to teach her daughter Ripley, to love her body.