Here, you’ll find all BGG2WL posts related to the development and improvement of body image among girls and women.
Imagine my surprise when I learned that even these paintings were altered a lil’ bit!
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Body Image
Celebrities and well-known women “go naked” to encourage sunscreen use.
Black Women, Body Image And Our Relationship To The Life-Sized Barbie
written by Erika Nicole Kendall
What does your relationship with Barbie look like?
“What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion for yourself and for those around you. That kind of beauty enflames the heart and enchants the soul.”
Thigh Gaps: Dangerous Obsession, Healthy Perspective, and Learning (and Loving) Your Hips
written by Erika Nicole Kendall
Demystifying the “thigh gap,” and what you need to know about this disturbing new trend.
All that glitters ain’t gold, y’all.
How a woman went from fitspo photo to celebrity overnight.
Video Vault: Singer’s Video Demonstrates How Fake Music Videos Can Truly Be
written by Erika Nicole Kendall
Watch a video editor in the process of turning a drab video into a full-glam shoot. It’s The Photoshop Diet on steroids.
What shame is, what it does, and how to fight it on your own.
Today, you will look at this botched photoshop job…and laugh. Heartily.
Saw this on TakePart, and thought it was wonderful… so I needed to share: Photographer Jade Beall never believed she lived up to traditional standards of beauty. And so when …
“‘Maybe your grades will get you somewhere one day, because your looks sure won’t.’ That was probably the best motivation I could have had.”
“If They Hadn’t Told Me I Was Ugly, I Never Would Have Searched for My Beauty”
written by Erika Nicole Kendall
“…And if everyone had always laughed at my jokes, I wouldn’t have figured out how to be so funny. If they hadn’t told me I was ugly, I never would …
“I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve seen grown women fall into a compliment fest because neither one knew how to take a compliment, or how to deliver …
Ten…or fourteen…reasons why the BMI is absolute trash.
Why do we always feel like we’re never enough?
Video Vault: What Happens When Everyday Women are Put on the Photoshop Diet?
written by Erika Nicole Kendall
Do you believe that photoshopping a photo either adds to it or diminishes its appeal?
Stories of booty injections gone horribly wrong.
Video Vault: Documentary Details How Booty Injections Will Leave You in “Buttloads of Pain” (NSFW)
written by Erika Nicole Kendall
“Oscarina’s derrière had transformed so much that it no longer looked like it was part of a human’s body; her five-year-old daughter mistook her fluid-filled cheeks for a poopy diaper, …