A fun article on the amazing personal style of America Ferrera (I love that top outfit by Diane von Furstenberg) and how you can totally try to work it yourself, if you have a similar, hourglass body type. Miss. Ferrera has been popping up on more and more “best dressed” lists recently, and it’s no [...]

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This post is brilliant and I’m sorry I didn’t think of it first: a look at the bodies of the new Beverly Hills 90210 cast compared to the previous cast. It’s like a comparison between the original cast of The Real World and the most recent cast. Thinner, more highlighted, more generic. It’s an interesting [...]

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Recently I’ve been thinking quite a bit about the male perspective on size acceptance. There seems to have been a recent uptick in men commenting on this blog, and I have more than one male friend who has been known to make disparaging comments about his body size. In response to my recent assertion that [...]

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Interesting post at TMZ of all places, about Queen Latifah’s endorsement of the Jenny Craig diet (which, if you recall I had issues with). You can follow that link to see some before and after shots of Queen Latifah, but this is the entirety of the post: We’re hearing there’s a new strategy in Jenny [...]

Filed under: Advertising, Celebrities, Cold Hard Cash, Gossip, Kirstie Alley, Magazines, Media, Queen Latifah, Weight Loss | 36 Comments »

Originally uploaded by mo pie I have been reading Elastic Waist daily since it launched; especially since my friends (including BFD contributor Weetabix) write for the site. I have been on their “daily special” show and have even written a guest post or two for them. However, the fact remains that it is a corporate-sponsored [...]

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Oh this is a fucking wonderful idea: an MTV reality show called Model Maker that asks women to lose up to eighty pounds in twelve weeks. Doing the math, that’s approximately seven pounds per week. The goal is, of course, to be “thin” and “beautiful” enough to be a model. (One of the prizes is [...]

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After a whole lot of OBESITY EPIDEMIC OMG!!1! in the news lately, finally we have some good news in the New York Times, where the headline reads “Better to Be Fat and Fit Than Skinny and Unfit.” The researchers chalk it up in part to the assumptions people make when they hear the words “overweight” [...]

Filed under: Advocacy, Exercise, Fat Positive, Health, Media, Personal, Science | 18 Comments »

Okay, later in the week we will definitely be talking about the BFDudes, but for now, let’s help BFDiva Rebecka (and the rest of the girls, and their girls) with the age-old dilemma of finding a good bra, shall we? Take it away, Rebecka: I am desperate to find a REALLY good bra, for the [...]

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Us Magazine has a slideshow of the “weight winners of the year“—naturally, the stars who have lost weight this year! And look great! Woo! And they’re all women. OF COURSE. Because who cares if men gain or lose weight? Nobody! Woo! Stars include J. Love, Ricki Lake, Kim Locke, Vanessa Williams, and multiple women (including [...]

Filed under: Celebrities, Feminism, Gossip, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Kids, Magazines, Mariah Carey, Media, Ricki Lake | 28 Comments »

It’s literally almost impossible to find the most offensive quote in this transcript of a conversation between Ted Nugent and Anthony Bourdain on Bourdain’s show No Reservations. Here’s Nugent: I know there are people who are mentally deranged that just don’t know better, and they do need help, but 99 percent of the sperm whales [...]

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Are you watching the Beijing Olympics? I’m catching parts of it, and it’s a big watercooler topic here at work. The other day, Joy Nash (among others) posted some photos of Olympians of varying shapes and sizes. It kinda cracks your head open to realize that each of these people [is] perfect. They’re uniquely suited [...]

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A more substantive post is on its way, but in the meantime, I wanted to highly recommend this post from Fatly Yours that talks about how trying to compliment a fat woman by saying that skinny women are “anorexic” or “disgusting” isn’t healthy either. It’s hard to know what part to quote so I’ll just [...]

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My favorite reality show that nobody but me and Kim watches is The Mole. (The first host of the show was the amazing Anderson Cooper; the current host, Jon Kelley, is equally fabulous and hot. You heard it here first.) The premise of the show is that a dozen or so contestants are competing in [...]

Filed under: American Idol, Fat Positive, Fatism, Project Runway, Question, TV | 22 Comments »

News flash “half of overweight adults are heart-healthy” according to this new, totally shocking study: You can look great in a swimsuit and still be a heart attack waiting to happen. And you can also be overweight and otherwise healthy. A new study suggests that a surprising number of overweight people — about half — [...]

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It’s true that culturally, the responsibility for having an adequately-sized sexual organ is all on the guy, but a growing movement is noticing that hey, it’s not like a vagina only comes in petite. One girl’s hooha might be snug while another girl might get labeled as “cavernous” by guys in private. After all, it [...]

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I work in a giant, brightly decorated cubicle with two other people, and we often pass the days sending each other links to amusing things or dorky things or talking about the latest episode of Project Runway. Actually that all happened today. But the other thing that happened today was one of us, and I’m [...]

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Originally uploaded by mo pie Well, it’s certainly an unconventional approach, but apparently Selma Blair thinks its a good idea. The Hellboy star admits she is always criticising her looks, and the only thing she likes about her body is her hands. And when filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro suggested that taking drugs would boost her [...]

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I think it was Ian who first pointed me to this article in The New York Times about the development of an exercise pill, although the conversation seems to have exploded everywhere. Let’s hop on that bandwagon! First, from the NYT article: Aicar signals to the cell that it has burned off energy and needs [...]

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Krispy Kreme bacon cheddar cheeseburgersOriginally uploaded by ccaviness Oh my god, Krispy Kreme cheeseburgers! I pondered this for a minute to answer the question asked in the title. I came up with “so wrong it’s right” because I would totally try one of these things. Of course at least one very articulate person in the [...]

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