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NEWS ABOUT: body image

body image stories: 15 news summaries
OPINION

Photo Doesn't Make Me a Slut: Meghan McCain

Overreaction part of 'infuriating' double standard on racy pix

Oct 16, 09 2:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - Meghan McCain can’t believe the “immediate and nasty overreaction” to her post of a “funny and silly” self-portrait. She admits that posting a photo showing off her cleavage “is not the smartest thing I have ever done. But it’s just not worth the drama it... More »

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Jeff Flake • body image • Aaron Schock • Meghan McCain • breasts • Twitter • photos • Twitpic • Meghan McCain Twitter

 Plus-Size Models Hurt Self-Esteem, Too

Sorry, Glamour: A model's size doesn't matter to an overweight woman

Oct 16, 09 11:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Never mind the hoopla surrounding Glamour’s decision to grace its pages with plus-size models—looking at any model will damage an overweight woman’s self-esteem. Meanwhile, underweight women's self-esteem climbs no matter the size of the model they’re looking at, New York reports, citing... More »

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fashion • weight • body image • Glamour magazine • Jay-ZTV • women's issues • models • Lizzi Miller • magazines

Fox Apologizes for Jessica Simpson
Weight Jokes

Calls cartoon a 'poor attempt at humor'

Oct 15, 09 1:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Fox sucked it up and apologized for an NFL Sunday skit in which cartoon versions of the Dallas Cowboys made fun of Jessica Simpson’s weight. “Upon reflection, our poor attempt at humor was insensitive,” Fox said in a statement to US Weekly. It also pointed out... More »

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Dallas Cowboys • Fox • Tony Romo • body image • Jessica Simpson • Burger King

She Got Fired
for Being 
Too Fat 

Model from altered ad says Ralph Lauren called her 'overweight'

Oct 14, 09 2:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Feminists, grab your pitchforks. Filippa Hamilton, the model who appeared in a Ralph Lauren ad so ridiculously photoshopped that her waist looked smaller than her head, now says the fashion label fired her for being too fat. “They said I was overweight and I couldn’t fit in their... More »

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women • model • Ralph Lauren • Photoshop • body image • Filippa Hamilton

 Even a Little Exercise 
 Boosts Your Ego 

Psychological benefits of working out not related to actual fitness: study

Oct 8, 09 2:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Good news for the semi-motivated couch potato: doing just a little exercise—not actually getting fit—will make you feel better about yourself, a new study says. University of Florida researchers reviewing 57 studies on exercise and body image found that people who exercised got the same body-image boost no... More »

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health • exercise • fitness • body image • academic research

OPINION

 For That Photoshopped Look: 
 Airbrush Yourself at Home 

Effect of digital retouching on real women's body issues is now creepily tangible

Sep 30, 09 10:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - As if the fake beauty of those Photoshopped magazine covers wasn’t enough, enter Temptu, a home “airbrush system” that can give anyone that flat, plastic look in the flesh. Chloe Angyal is appalled. One really needs to focus in order “to think about just how incredibly screwed... More »

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women • Photoshop • cosmetics • body image • digital retouching • makeup • magazine cover • airbrush

 Glamour Goes 
 Plus-Size, 
 Nude Again 

Six full-figured models will join beloved Lizzi Miller in the buff

Sep 1, 09 10:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Inspired by the outpouring of enthusiasm (and press, no doubt) over the appearance of plus-size model Lizzi Miller—pooch and all—in its September issue, Glamour will feature a bevy of nude plus-size models in a November spread, insiders tell the New York Post. Miller will be back,... More »

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entertainment • weight • model • body image • Glamour magazine • fashion industry • women's issues • models • Lizzi Miller

(Newser) - In showing that it has the stomach to use plus-sized models in its pages, Glamour has provoked a torrent of positive reader reaction, blogger Margaret notes on Jezebel. A photo of a woman with a bit of a gut hanging over her underwear accompanied a story in the September issue,... More »

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entertainment • weight • body image • Glamour magazine • women's issues • models • Cindi Leive • Lizzi Miller

OPINION

 Don't Tell Me I'm Not Fat 

The 'f' word is just another adjective

Jan 24, 09 2:20 PM CST
(Newser) - People are constantly trying to tell Kate Harding she’s not fat, and it “drives me up a goddamn wall,” she writes in Salon. She is, by any reasonable definition, fat. It's simply another word that describes her. The problem is, everyone associates being fat with being lazy,... More »

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obesity • fat • stereotypes • body image

 Lad Mags Hurt 
 Mens' Body Image 

But it's pics of women, not men, that get guys down

Nov 8, 08 2:03 PM CST
(Newser) - Turns out, guys also get self-conscious when looking at images of sexy women. While studies have shown that women's self-esteem takes a dive when they look at models in Cosmopolitan and such mags, the same holds true for men who browse Maxim and the like, LiveScience reports. The problem for... More »

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women • men • research • body image • men's magazines

Weight Can Increase Risk
of Breast Cancer

But side effects of treatment can make it harder to shed pounds

Oct 8, 08 3:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - There may be a direct connection between weight and breast cancer in women, MSNBC reports. Overweight women “have more exposure to estrogen,” one doctor said, "which we think increases their risk of several different cancers.” Breast cancer patients across the country are now coupling their therapy... More »

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obesity • breast cancer • weight loss • estrogen • cancer research • body image • postmenopausal women

Short Men
Seek Surgical Stretching

Bone-breaking procedure gaining takers, at $100K a pop

May 31, 08 10:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Short, and even not-so-short men who feel their height is holding them back in life are turning to surgery in growing numbers, Details reports. Clinics abroad offer cosmetic limb lengthening that can add a few inches of height, but the bill can top $100,000 and the procedure, which involves... More »

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surgery • height • surgeon • cosmetic surgery • body image

France Moves to Outlaw 'Inciting' Thinness

Anti-eating disorder bill cites 'death messages,' could affect fashion

Apr 15, 08 1:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - France’s lower legislative body today approved a law banning the promotion of anorexic behavior, the Guardian reports. Applicable to magazines, advertising and the web, the law can impose up to a $47,000 fine and two years in prison for “excessively inciting others to deprive themselves of food.... More »

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fashion • anorexia • France • legislation • eating disorder • body image

'Perfect' School Photos, But at What Cost?

Digital retouching for young kids may warp developing body image

Feb 22, 08 11:52 AM CST
(Newser) - Popular and inexpensive digital retouching of school photos has some parents concerned about the effects on kids’ sense of body image, Newsweek reports. Clients for retouching services—powdering complexions, whitening teeth, reshaping eyebrows and so forth—are getting younger and younger, creating, one historian says, "a culture of kids... More »

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children • photography • body image • digital retouching • school pictures • childhood

'A Size 2 Is Not Fat!'

Actress responds to critics, bikini photo

Dec 4, 07 11:35 AM CST
(Newser) - Actress and former underwear model Jennifer Love Hewitt has fired back at Internet gossipers who've been sniping about her figure since unflattering photos of her on a Hawaiian beach with fiance Ross McCall made the rounds. "Like all women out there should, I love my body," she wrote... More »

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celebrity • photograph • TMZ • Jennifer Love Hewitt • weight gain • body image

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