Food Network Star would be a great show without Giada’s breasts getting in the way–or, at least, that seems to be the concensus of a vocal and persistent group of fans of Food Network’s flagship competition programme. Though it’s been a year since we first reported on the controversy involving Giada’s breasts (which controversy, as…
Ariel Winter has had to deal with more than her fair share of comments about her body since Modern Family made her a star. Over the weekend, though, a harmless Ariel Winter Instagram photo of the 17-year-old and her nieces brought a bevy of unsolicited comments and criticism, and Winter decided she’d had enough. On Friday,…
The ongoing Kim Kardashian fat shaming controversy reached an interesting new point this week, as Kim herself shared some comments aimed at her detractors. Specifically, she stared down the whole matter by referring to her “fat arms and fat a**” in a new interview. Devoteés will recall that Kim Kardashian was the recipient of some…
A few days ago, Donald Trump created a bit of a furor by suggesting that Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly attacked him at the network’s Republican candidate forum because she was on her period. Then, Trump tried to walk back his comment, saying that when he referred to Kelly as having “blood coming out of…
Social network giant Facebook is catching some heat for having “fat” as one of their how are you feeling status updates. Non-profit organization Endangered Bodies has started a Change.org petition hoping to get Facebook to remove the emoji which features embarrassed rosy cheeks, a puffy circumference and even a double chin. Graduate student and playwright…
Dr. Drew’s 21-year-old daughter Paulina Pinsky penned an amazing piece about her own struggles with anorexia and bulimia and her work is now garnering national attention. Read the heartfelt piece in full, see an insightful interview with Paulina that aired today on CNN and read what her father had to say about her opening up.
Lena Dunham is often naked on her HBO series Girls, and a lot of people have a lot of opinions about that. Recently, the issue of Lena’s on-screen skin came to a head when The Wrap reporter Tim Molloy asked Lena and her producer Judd Apatow about it during a Television Critics Association panel. Why is Lena naked a lot of the time? Why does it even matter?
Bethenny Frankel, who is building an empire based on her “Skinnygirl” concept, has been open about her own struggles with disordered eating, which she feels was partly caused by her own mother’s obsession with body and food. Find out how she plans to break that cycle with Brynn.
Following Lululemon’s recall of yoga pants that proved to be transparent in some areas, the company’s founder said certain women’s body types are actually to blame. Chip previously got himself in hot water for saying the company doesn’t carry larger sizes because it’s “a money loser.”
Heidi Montag recently went under the knife yet again, but this time it was to reduce the size of her breasts from an F cup to a more manageable D cup. She invited cameras into the surgery room and discussed her many health problems stemming from her enhancements and the regrets she has about having wrapped her self worth around her breast size. See the clip as well as a before and after photo and get Heidi’s advice to women considering getting augmentations as large as she did.
California mother-of-three, Maria Kang, has received a mountain of criticism after a photo she posted on Facebook went viral that shows her very fit physique along with her three young children and the tag “What’s your excuse?” Get her #SorryNotSorry response to a cavalcade of critics accusing her of fat shaming as well as her reply to supporters.
For the first time, Mischa Barton is opening up about what she calls her “terrifying” breakdown following her teenage fame as a star of The O.C.. Find out what Barton had to say about her down spiral, which eventually led to a psychiatric hold after she threatened to take her own life, and why she’s choosing to speak up now about her struggles.
Princess Diana secretly struggled with bulimia and depression for the majority of her time in the public eye. After eventually seeking treatment, she became an advocate for eating disorders and had a lasting effect.
Safe to say getting struck by lightning is negative experience. But, as commentators on Reddit pointed out, there is one very B.A. potential side-effect: Lichtenberg figures, beautiful fractal patterns that temporarily scar the skin.
Months after being called a “female hippo” and “tractor-sized” by New York Observer critic Rex Reed in a review of Identity Thief, Melissa McCarthy is finally speaking out. In a new interview with The New York Times, the Emmy Award winning and Academy Award nominated actress wonders not only why Rex was so filled with hate, but also why someone would approve the comments in the first place.
Zoe Saldana’s Allure feature has sparked a great deal of controversy because they proclaim exactly how much the 5’7″ actress weighs right on the cover. The magazine, which features Zoe completely in the buff inside, says she weighs 115 pounds. While it’s not an unhealthy weight for her size, it’s definitely on the low end of the spectrum, and some believe it glorifies the cult of thinness. Should the magazine have printed her weight on the cover?
Winona Ryder not pretty enough to be an actress? Blasphemy! But that’s exactly what the now 41-year-old actress was told during an early acting audition. She tells Interview magazine “I was mid-sentence when the casting director said, ‘Listen, kid. You should not be an actress. You are not pretty enough. You should go back to wherever you came from and you should go to school. You don’t have it.”
Doctors at Sweden’s largest eating disorder clinic revealed appalling trend: On multiple occasions, extremely underweight patients were approached by modeling scouts who were positioned just outside the Stockholm facility.
Audrey Hepburn in an irrefutable beauty icon, but her son reveals that she was very critical of her looks.
Barbie finally took off all that makeup and false eyelashes! An image circulating the web attributed to Eddi Aguirre has given a glimpse at the famous doll without all the glamour. While Barbie is often criticized for having unrealistic body proportions, it’s nice to have a different perspective on Barbie’s ever perfect face. Not only…
Kendall Jenner may be just 17-years-old, but this girl already has it all. She’s on a hit TV show, Keeping Up With The Kardashians, she has an amazing family, and her modeling career is booming. Despite all of that, Kendall still has one major issue in her life — she’s being bullied for her weight. Keep reading to find out what Kendall had to say about it in a recent interview, and find out which of her and Kylie’s older sisters they consider to be a “second mom.”
It’s easy to forget that Beyonce isn’t a supernatural being. The girl truly seems like she can do it all: kill it at the Super Bowl, casually chat with the president and lose all her baby weight in three months. But, in a recent interview with Shape, Queen Bey admits she works hard to keep her figure.
Pregnant celebrities are often criticized for their weight gain, (or in some cases, lack of weight gain,) but it’s compounded when they’re someone like Kim Kardashian, who basically made a brand out of every waking minute of her life.
Christina Aguilera has made it no secret that her weight fluctuatesWhen we first met the pop star, she was teeny tiny and flaunting it. From the barely there mini-skirts to the low cut jeans with the sides cut out, she was always showing off her trim figure. After her son Max was born, Christina got much curvier and told press she loved her new figure. Now her look has changed again. During a recent event for The Voice, Christina debuted yet another look and this time, she’s shed some serious pounds.
Mallory Hytes Hagan, the reigning Miss America, was recently criticized for photos snapped of her on a Hawaiian trip looking different from when she won the pageant in January.
See what she looks like now and how she responded to critics…
His sister Kim may be the pregnant one, but Rob Kardashian is the one rapidly gaining weight. Rob confessed on the latest episode of Kourtney and Kim Take Miami that he has gained 40 pounds during his year-long relationship with Rita Ora, which ended in December 2012.
When the folks at Us Weekly invited Amanda Bynes to reveal “25 things you didn’t know about me,” they must have known they were hitting a jackpot. The former child-star/retired actress, who has been acting very erratically during the past year, confessed a number of strange facts about herself. The most disturbing admission came when she claimed, “I lost 4 lbs. since I moved (to New York City). I’m 121 lbs — my goal is 100 lbs.”
Last night TLC aired a two new episodes of their addicting show My Strange Addiction. The first episode introduced us to a woman who liked to lick her cat and eat its hair, and Mike a Trina, a couple who share an obsession with coffee enemas.
The second episode featured a man who was obsessed with inflatable pool toys, and Karmella, 23-year-old mom with a 4-year-old son who’s had over two liters of non-medical grade silicon injected (54 separate injection sessions) into her butt over the past three years.
Lady Gaga is capturing headlines this week but no, she didn’t wear meat again this time, it’s because the Mother Monster (as her fans call her) cancelled four concerts from her tour after suffering an injury during one of her concerts. While fans (and everyone around her) are just now finding out about the injury, it actually happened a while ago. Gaga had been working through the injury but now things have become unbearable.
More than 150 years after dying from complications of childbirth, the body of Julia Pastrana is back in her native Mexico. Pastrana died in Europe, where she was exploited in traveling shows that deemed her the “Ape Woman.”
Funny lady Melissa McCarthy is leading not only this weekend’s box office, but securing the top box office of 2013 with Identity Thief, which also stars Jason Bateman.
This victory is particularly sweet after a scathing review of the movie, AND of Melissa’s body became viral. Rex Reed of The Observer called McCarthy “tractor-sized,” a “hunk of junk,” a “female hippo,” and a “screeching, humongous creep.”
Here is the dilemma with putting a young girl or boy on a diet: If a child is told her body is “wrong” from such a young age and is forced to change her behaviors, will she be set up for a lifetime of insecurity and disordered eating? Or, if you don’t encourage her to eat healthier and become more active, is she destined to the health problems that coincide with obesity?
Following the birth of her daughter Maxwell Drew last May, Jessica Simpson dived straight into Weight Watchers. Within four months, she lost more than 50 pounds and was on track to reach her body goals. Then, in what Simpson called “kind of like a one-night-stand,” she got pregnant again. But, this time, she is commited to having a healthier pregnancy.
For five years, Courtney Lenz cheered on the Baltimore Ravens. However, she will soon miss out on what should be the most exciting event of her cheerleading career, the Super Bowl. The reason the veteran is left out? According to an online petition, Lenz is in trouble for choosing to retire and for gaining two pounds during the season.
Sofia Vergara is one funny woman who absolutely kills it on Modern Family. But, let’s be honest, the first thing that most people notice about her isn’t her bubbly personality. Rather than let there be an elephant (or two) in the room, Vergara doesn’t shy away from talking about her biggest assets.
“Reverse photoshopping” involves digitally manipulating pictures to make models look fuller, curvier or more muscular — and magazine editors aren’t denying it. But, with some fashion models crying foul, it begs the question: Is reverse photoshopping good or bad?
Suzy Hoover lost 95 pounds and met her future husband on the second season of “Biggest Loser.” However, after posting a photo from a recent event that shows the weight many former contestants have gained back, Suzy is defending herself — and taking some punches at the show.
“Editing can make the viewer think anything and everything the producers (the ones making money) want you to think. And, btw, the producers and creators are the only one making money.”
It’s a rare day when Nicole Sullivan makes the news. But, after she claimed celebrity moms lie about how they lost baby weight, people are talking about the former MADtv star.
Sullivan, who is a Jenny Craig brand ambassador, said of celebrities during an interview with Us Weekly, “They all lie and say, ‘Oh, I lost the weight running after the kids or breastfeeding.’ It’s not true!”
Sullivan said she felt like she was missing out on the big secret of how to shed weight after giving birth to her first son Dashel, now 5.
Anne Hathway worries a lot, about her weight, and about what she wears when she goes out. She says if she weren’t famous, she’d wear WAY more silly hats, and way less navy.
Jennifer Lawrence is the epitome of fit and trim, but she still struggles with what’s considered “thin” in Hollywood. The Hunger Games star told ELLE magazine’s December issue that she’s extremely body conscious, but instead of wanting to be the tiniest woman in the room, she wants to look like she eats because she doesn’t…
Christina Hendricks is known for her curves, and while she embraces her figure, the actress has her limits when it comes to what people say about her frame. During a recent interview, the actress was caught off guard when the woman interviewing her referred to her as a “full-figured” woman. While off camera, Christina expressed her disapproval of the term, but the interviewer seemed to forget as she brought it up once again. That’s when the Mad Men star became a mad woman star and the whole thing came to an awkwardly abrupt halt.
When Christina Aguilera first burst onto the scene, she was a tiny little thing with a big voice. Now, she’s a bit bigger and it hasn’t gone unnoticed. In fact, she’s taken a lot of heat for her weight gain, but she loves her new size and she’s shouting it from the rooftops. In fact, she thinks her debut size was a bit too thin.
Sure, beauty icon Marilyn Monroe had curves, but there is a pop culture myth, propped up by quotes from Roseanne Barr and Elizabeth Hurley, that she was much larger than she really was. It’s all a complicated misunderstanding.
Newsroom and Magic Mike star Olivia Munn recently revealed that she suffers with anxiety issues. This problem manifests itself in the form of an impulse-control disorder called trichotillomania. Find out what this is including a video from a sufferer and how it impacts Olivia’s daily life.
As Glamour‘s August cover girl, Mila Kunis spoke about two of the biggest double standards in Hollywood: scrutiny of women’s weight and age.
Mila’s gained 25 pounds since her Black Swan days, when the 5’4″ actress weighed only 98 pounds. She pointed out that she’s healthier now and has more muscle; but no matter what her weight is, people complain.
Dancing With the Stars dancer (who is currently Chaz Bono’s dancing partner on the show) Lacey Schwimmer has an hour-glass body, firm muscles, and wears a size 4, but that still doesn’t stop her from facing flack from a Hollywood and dance culture that expects nothing less of women than to be thin, lanky, and barely even there. A recent unflattering “mom jeans” fashion choice gave her even more trouble from everyone on The Internet.
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