Body Politics

I am working on a new project and I need models who are willing to have their yoni photographed.
I am curious about how women feel about the way their vagina looks.  How it functions.  If they are happy with their vagina or if their opinion has changed over the years about it.  Do you wax?  [...]

I am so sick of all the judging. This woman is not only, at least by press accounts and US Government vetting process, highly qualified for the position of Surgeon General, she seems like a genuinely good human being.
Here are some articles you can read regarding the controversy of impeccably credentialed and cherub-faced surgeon [...]

Isn’t it shocking?  Look how shocking it is!
Okay, YES, that photo is unflattering, but not because she’s “too fat” or anything.  It’s a weird angle, the lighting is bad, it’s fuzzy and so forth.
Look at the “thin” photo – her hair is blowing back – the lighting is great.  We have all had unflattering photos [...]

I thought this bit of the article said it so very well and is pretty much what I’ve felt for years.
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In fact, what might be most striking about French Elle’s pictorial is how it actually appears to embrace and celebrate the organic beauty of these famous faces (even if the [...]

I do not begrduge Valerie Bertinelli one bit of happiness for feeling better and meeting goals and eating healthy – though I have no idea what the ingredients in a Jenny Craig meal are.
I’m glad she’s happy.  She suffered a long time hating herself and now she is doing a-ok.  I hope so anyway.  I [...]

I couldn’t have said it better than Greg Wendland.  Regarding Kirstie Alley’s appearance on the Oprah show back in 2006.  I tripped across this article while looking for something to post here regarding Valerie Bertinelli and her new “bikini body.”
“If we are not our bodies, then why does it become such an issue to appear [...]

In doing research about my last post, I came across this interesting opinion by one writer.  I can’t say that I don’t notice it when a star is called fat then comes back on a cover or event skinnier.  Are they bowing to the pressure?  Are they making it even worse for other women?  What [...]

I don’t rush to the couch and watch Dancing With the Stars, so when I heard on THE NEWS about a fuss being made about Cheryl Burke being fat, I didn’t know who that was.
Looking at photos of the young woman I can see that she did gain weight.  She says five pounds, others say [...]

 
Did you know it’s “Body Image Awareness Week?” I didn’t, until Julia Piscitelli told me. You’d think that would be the kind of thing I’d be…well, AWARE of!  Actually, I learned that it is also being called “Eating Disorder Awareness Week.  So, it would seem it’s both.
Miss. America is speaking tomorrow at American [...]

I wanted to write about this a few weeks ago when my pal Richard posted about it on our political group blog CharlesCountyCafe.com.  It’s taken me a while because I wanted to transcribe some of the video and I also wanted to look up info and links on each of the people involved in the [...]