Stories of Substance: Body Image Round-Up

Touching post on Still Standing Online Magazine called “Body Image After Loss” about body image after the author’s body “failed” her and she lost her baby and how infertility affects body image.

Are we afraid of people who eat a lot? What does gluttony trigger in us? Read about it here.

Fabulous post on Clutch Magazine about how street harassment growing up affected the author’s body image here.

Earlier this week I wrote about the Keep It Real Challenge going on to combat photoshopped images in magazines. Want to see examples of the types of photoshopped images that demonstrate the importance of this movement? Hop on over to the always-excellent Beauty Redefined and check out their Photoshop Phoniness: Hall of Shame here.  You can read the posts of some of the participants who wrote blog posts for Day 2 here.

I love comedian Margaret Cho! So I was even more excited to find her writings on body image here. She has a lot of smart, personal and thought-provoking things to say. Definitely check it out.

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