As a psychologist, having a patient say something out loud makes it have an exponential importance than just thinking about it. How about if I am hearing myself insult myself, over and over, day after day?
fat acceptance
body
I stopped hating my body when I realized that number doesn’t mean dick.
surgery
From 2002 and on, I basically never stepped foot on a beach and, if I did, I was always fully clothed.
the frisky
Tiny is a newborn puppy, or a kindergarten child, or, my 5’0″ mother who weighed 90 pounds on her wedding day. I haven’t weighed 90 pounds since middle school.
fat guys
I like lots of kinds of bodies. Fat dudes are on that list.
Marianne in
Sex,
fat guys,
fat dudes,
fat acceptance,
body acceptance,
variety,
I have a type,
lots of people are attractive
Jun 6, 2013 at 11:00am | 483 comments
body acceptance
In other words, I’m not very keen on my body, and I certainly don’t accept it. If one more person tells me I have to, I’m going to lose my shit and throw something really heavy and dangerous.
body acceptance
My body will never run marathons or win beauty pageants, and it might always be sick, but do you know what it does every day, quite effectively? It lives. I live.
body acceptance
You know those women who can open their closets, pull out a few things and voila! they look amazing and effortless? I am not one of those women.
fat
Why do we allow a number to hold so much power over our self-perception?
body acceptance
No, it's not a delicious pastry; it's a little roll of fat under my right butt cheek.
fashion
Lashing out at thin women to tell them they aren’t wanted isn’t the way to address disparities and prejudices in fashion.
s.e. smith in
Issues,
fashion,
modeling,
class war,
body diversity,
fatty fatty two by four,
body acceptance,
body image
Apr 4, 2013 at 2:30pm | 186 comments
body
Tina Fey recently said that she won't talk crap about her own body in front of her daughters because she doesn't want to set a bad example. I wonder if my mom did the same thing, but now that I've grown up, she no longer has to maintain the illusion.
fat
Spoiler alert: we're still married, and I'm still fat. This is not an article about how to help your spouse to lose weight.
fat acceptance
In the greatest depths of my body issues, I refused to sleep with anyone who wasn’t at least somewhat overweight.
body acceptance
Just when we thought it was safe to come out of the water, or in my case, from the bottom of the KFC bucket.
ihtm contest
I knew that I hadn’t been taking care of myself, but this was the most unpleasant wake-up call of my life. I didn’t know if I could change my fate, but I vowed to try.
fat
The way folks talk, you'd think fat people and skinny people are locked in a battle to the death over the acceptability of bodies and that, Highlander style, in the end there can be only one.
fat
FAT IS NOT MAKING YOU UNHAPPY. All our accumulated cultural crap around bodies and expectations are.
fat
Why are we so freakin' stingy with our sympathy when it comes to "enormous" fat women? What the hell is wrong with us?
body image
UGH, I’m getting all serious again. Sorry, but stomach flu just isn’t conducive to beauty writing. This will be brief!
Gabi Rivera-Morales in
Issues,
body image,
healthy,
eating disorders,
body acceptance,
doctor's visits,
when doctors are assholes
Dec 31, 2012 at 11:00am | 253 comments
weight
BREAKING: It turns out YOU DESERVE TO ESTABLISH HEALTHY BOUNDARIES and to HAVE THOSE BOUNDARIES RESPECTED. Really!
plus sizes
In other words, I am personally helping reduce our cultural obsession with thinness by putting pictures of my fat self up on xoJane all the time. YAY ME.
