Tag Archive: celebrity body image

A Good Read, or a Rag?

When was the last time you read a woman’s magazine, and by the time you reached the back cover you felt good about yourself? Now I’m not talking about a food and home magazine, or a wellbeing-focused publication, but the glossy weeklies and monthlies that focus on diet, exercise, weight loss, cosmetics, gossip, and fashion….

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The Media and Body Image

I’m really not a fan of womens’ magazines – IĀ stopped buying them when I was in my 20s because I’ve never been a soap opera fan and wasn’t interested in reading speculations attributed to “a close friend” about the lives of the people who were paid to act in shows I never watched. And you…

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