I first really started to notice botox faces in non-celebrities when I was at a weekend workshop in 2009. A woman who was also attending struck up a conversation in my group during a break. I was fascinated that her face was almost immobile, apart from her lips which were very plump and seemed to…
I subscribe to a number of other body image blogs, a couple of them regularly have me scratching my head – I stay subbed because it’s important to me to know what else is going on in the realm of positive body image and loving your body. Most of it isn’t pretty – most of…
Often when conversations about negative body image come up, someone raises the idea that Barbie starts it all. I’ve been uneasy about Barbie for as long as I can remember, even when playing with the plastic princess with my friend Michelle when I was a kid. My brothers usually mangled any toys they came into…
The negative body image business is worth big bucks. Each year hundreds of billions of dollars are spent by women around the world, convinced by “solution providers” to buy a product to make us feel better about ourselves. But the business of body image has nothing at all to do with what your body or…