The “skinny” category serves users attracted to slender, thin bodies with minimal muscle mass and minimal body fat. A skinny body is characterized by leanness in its purest form: a visible skeletal ...
As St. Lucy’s students were growing up, we always thought when someone said we were skinny, it was meant to be taken as a compliment. It was not until we were submerged into the world of media that we ...
Has the era of body-positivity come and gone? Thin is back in. Almond moms dominate the chat. We’re headed for disaster ...
The ultra-thin female body ideal promoted so heavily in media images has long been linked with body dissatisfaction and eating disorder symptoms in women. One of the most widely researched theories of ...
It was one of those dresses that feels like it was made for you. It seemed to fit my body perfectly, so I decided to step out of my dressing room and examine the dress from multiple angles in the full ...
Alex Light said the pressure to be thin had a "hugely detrimental" effect on her life. In her early 20s, Light developed multiple eating disorders due to societal pressure to lose weight. Now 34, ...
Ultrathin dolls could be detrimental to young girls’ body image, a new study has shown. Researchers observed 5- to 9-year-olds playing with dolls of different body types and found girls who played ...