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Are Big Breasts Tastier than Intellectual Breasts?

My lovely guest poster (is that a word?) today, Carol Cassara has strong opinions about the value of plastic surgery. Although I could very well have been one of those unfortunates with plastic surgery gone wrong, I love my results.

One Woman’s Love Letter to her Body in the War Against Body Image Issues

My guest posting badass for the day is Ms. Lori “Lavender” Holden (why didn’t someone name me Chartreuse?). I want to steal her love letter to her body for my body to add to my arsenal in fighting body image

I’m the Fat Lady I Judged When I was 20 and I Like Her

My Guest Poster, Kathy Radigan, learned the hard way what happens when you judge fat people. And how life ends up sweeter than you could have imagined. She writes: “I’m halfway through my 48th year on this planet. Or, as

How Often Should I Weigh Myself? aka The Bathroom Scale Made me her Bitch!

While I’m on vacation this week I have the privilege to introduce you to some lovely women-of-a-certain age! Today’s post comes to you from Alisa Schindler which begs the question “How Often Should I Weigh Myself?” Alisa writes: “I just did it

Breaking News: Man Trapped in Vagina aka the Man-eating Vagina

I think this one pretty much speaks for itself: Be careful what you wish for gentlemen! To keep up with man trapped in vagina sign up for our newsletter below! For Seo man trapped in vagina. trapped man in vagina.

Love Your Body Now: Healing Body Image Issues Through Fine Art Nudes: (Stephanie)

When I met Stephanie, a self-described Empath and Healer, in Boulder, Colorado to interview her for our Love Your Body Now Project: Healing Body Image Issues Through Fine Art Nudes, I was expecting a fruit loop. I had prejudices against

Did You Know The Way We Eat Our Food Is The Way We Make Love? aka My Sensual Eating Reboot

If you’ve been anywhere around this site or my social media networks you are probably incredibly sick of seeing my 1950s pin-ups. I am posting them everywhere because I love them. These photos are a reminder to stop the negative

Taryn Brumfitt’s Before Photo was “Fit,” And her After Photo was “Fat:” and why we should Celebrate that

Aussie mother of three, Taryn Brumfitt, found her body “disgusting.” In an effort to love her body she entered a weight-lifting beauty competition. She made her body perfect by Western standards and still felt disgusting. Thus she began The Body

The Internet Bought her Vagina

News Flash: Internet Buys Vagina! I’m beginning to realize that I somehow manage to work the word “vagina” into about eighty percent of my posts. I suppose this means I was dropped on my vagina as a child and she’ll

Are You Afraid Your Body Isn’t Beautiful After an Accident or Surgery? and The Scar Project

Today I received a comment that made my heart ache. Melanie read Ruby’s story in our Love Your Body Now series and wrote this: Ruby is everything that I’m not, brave. 3 years ago this July I was walking with

Gurl, you must be a traffic ticket cuz you got fine written all over you!

Today I’m curating Adriel Luis’ poetry in a film called Slip of the Tongue. In it he’s excoriated by a fiery-eyed Goddess who refuses to be categorized like a commodity. It’s powerful, lyrical and chortle-inducing. A must-see. I love words,

Body Image Issues aka How I Came to Fall in Love With my Soft Tummy

“What’s this?’ I asked a roided-out Gold’s gym employee. I was holding a fistful of my own soft, round flesh, which seemed to have suddenly appeared beneath my belly button two Mondays ago. I was twenty-eight years old, 5′ 6”

How Many Paint Eggs Can you Drop out of Your Vagina to Make Art? One Woman’s Epic Journey

I consider myself a feminist. And by that I mean seeing traits that are still intrinsically considered feminine — compassion, empathy, the capacity to nurture and build communities — as sources of vitality and strength. But I’ve got to say

I Don’t Want to Make the Thin Girl Ugly

My petition to the Yves Saint Laurent CEO, asking her to stop using images of painfully thin models (originally “anorexic models”) at Change.org has created quite a controversy. My friend Jenni Chiu wrote a thought-provoking rebuttal to my story in

The Love Your Body Now Project – Healing Body Image Issues Through Fine Art Nudes (Claire)

(To Learn How The #LoveYourBodyNow Project Came To Be, Start HERE.) When I asked Claire, a Denver-based sales rep, why she wanted to participate in our #LoveYourBodyNow Project she said, “I don’t put anything in my body that I haven’t

What’s Girlfriend Poker?

Ladies, have you ever bonded with fellow ladies by describing all of the things you don’t like about your body and one-upping each other? Here’s a potential conversation between my middle-aged friend Emily and me: Me: The neck is going.

Was I Wrong to Conjecture the YSL Model was Anorexic? And A Gorgeous Chubby Girl Dancing

Hello mon petits. There’s a lovely woman named Jenni Chiu who blogs at Mommy Nani Boo Boo. Today I received a note from her on Facebook letting me know she was going to write a rebuttal to my Change.org petition (we

A New Study on how to Heal Body Image Issues and the Kissing Video

Okay just stop. Have you stopped? Good. Now, how does your body feel? Mine feels pleasantly tired after working out hard in Pop Physique. My hands are a little sticky and sweaty on the keyboard. My tummy is full to the

Organic Anti-Aging Skin Care or The Zen of an Aging Neck

My version of organic anti-aging skin care isn’t what you’d expect… Over 40 we all have it. The body part we notice is a harbinger of our rendezvous with Death. (Oh, happy Monday!) Mine is my neck. My legs are

Which is Better? “Normal Barbie” or “Real-Life Barbie?”

Barbie’s gotten a lot of flack over the last decade for having body proportions that are anatomically impossible. Her Highness of Vapidity has even been accused of creating body image issues which can lead to anorexia, bulimia and death. (And

The Love Your Body Now Project – Healing Body Image Issues Through Fine Art Nudes (Ruby)

(I’ve begun the “Love Your Body Now” project with photographer, Beth Sanders, and we’ve added a third partner, body-centered coach, Marlene Zaleznick, to help heal body image issues through the use of fine art nudes. To read more about it click HERE.)

Petitioning CEO of Yves Saint Laurent, Francesca Bellettini, to Stop Using Images of Painfully Thin Models

(Based on feedback I’ve decided to change the rhetoric in this post in order to be more respectful to the model in the photo, but the petition stands). I was sitting in my office (the bathroom) flipping through the latest

The Love Your Body Now Project – Healing Body Image Issues Through Fine Art Nudes (Beth)

Hello Beauties — I’m very excited to announce that photographer Beth Sanders, body coach Marlene Zaleznick and I are combining our super powers to create a positive body image project called, “Love Your Body Now.” The germination of this idea began two

The Post In Which They Found A Lump In My Breast

It’s the moment every woman dreads. You’re lying flat on your back, your feet in stirrups and a doctor lady with cold fingers kneads your boobs like they’re dough for Challah bread. She pretends she hasn’t just looked at your

Are You Spectatoring During Sex??

My first lover was a USC football player with 0% body fat. He looked like this: You’d think we would have had hot sex. And every now and then we did. But a lot of the time I was, what

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