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- StyleNisean 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."
- StyleHayley 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.
- StyleElise 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.
StyleDonna 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.
- StyleD.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.
- StyleJessica 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.
- StyleJessica 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.
- StyleJessica 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.
- StyleJessica 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.
- StyleMarie 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.
- StyleNisean 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.
- StyleMaggie 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.
- StyleKristine 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.
- StyleKristine 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.
- StyleNisean 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).
- StyleNisean 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.
- StyleMarie 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.
StyleKristine SolomonPlus 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.
StyleYahoo Style UKThese 30 women posed nude in a photoshoot to protest against Facebook's nudity rules
It took a lot of courage for photographer Trina Cary to share a naked self-portrait to social media. Despite taking the time to censor each image so it didn’t violate Facebook’s community standards, every time she posted a nude self-portrait, it was reported.
- StyleMarie Claire Dorking
Amy Schumer is being body-shamed for potentially playing Barbie in a new film
This time it’s the turn of Amy Schumer to be on the receiving end of the cruel jibes. Over the weekend, rumours started swirling that Amy was set to be cast as Barbie in Mattel’s upcoming live action adaption. The film, which is a mix of animation and live-action, aims to put a modern spin on the way beauty is tied up with identity, and will follow Barbie as she is kicked out of Barbieland and into the real world.
StyleKristine SolomonLena Dunham’s Response to Being Called Pregnant Is Pretty Epic
Lena Dunham graciously shut down a rude comment about her body on Instagram after she posted a photo of herself glowing ethereally in an earth-toned silk gown.
- StyleKristine Solomon
Fitness Blogger Kelsey Wells Shows Her ‘Bloated’ Belly and Shares a Body-Positive Message
Popular fitness blogger Kelsey Wells took a break from her “fitspo” posts on Monday to do a gut check — literally and figuratively — and share it with her legion of Instagram followers and Facebook fans so they could see that, yes, she too has imperfections, and it’s OK. Kelsey Wells’s fitness journey includes loving herself, flaws and all. “I wanted to post this because I have received more than a few questions lately such as ‘how do you never look bloated?,’ ‘how do you never get zits?,’ and ‘how do you not have stretch marks?,'” Wells captioned the photos.
StyleDevon KelleyFitness Blogger Shows How Posing Can Give You a ‘Kardashian Butt’
One fitness Instagrammer is on a mission to show her fans that the bodies we admire aren’t always as perfect as they look on social media. Sara Puhto posted a photo on her Instagram demonstrating how artful posing can give you a “Kardashian booty.”
StyleSimone OliveroSwiss blogger shares body positive images after overcoming eating disorder
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- StyleKristine Solomon
This Is What Hilaria Baldwin’s Stomach Looks Like the Day After Giving Birth
Health guru Hilaria Baldwin posted an unfiltered photo of her postbaby body — in just a bra and panties — to Instagram as a means of promoting body-confidence.
