Body Image
Nearly 1 in 10 Teenagers Have Turned to Pills for Weight Loss, Research Shows
“It's not surprising.”
By Jennifer Gerson, The 19th
Reneé Rapp Says “People Are Clinically Obsessed” With Her Body
“And it’s f*cking stupid.”
By Teen Vogue Staff
LEARNING CURVE
On Recognizing My Thin Privilege When I’ve Never Been Thin
Mid-size and small-fat people, it’s time to accept that we might not be doing enough.
By Nicola Dall'Asen
Lili Reinhart Opened Up About Body Dysmorphia So Others Don't Feel Alone
“I truly wonder how anyone survives or gets through this life without having severe BD."
By Brittney McNamara
Diverse Views
Pinterest’s New Algorithms Want You to See Every Body Type
Social media algorithms usually promote biases toward white, thin bodies. Pinterest is using machine learning to surface images of all shapes and sizes.
By Paresh Dave
Berberine Isn't “Nature's Ozempic," It's a Reflection of Our Obsession With Being Thin
Berberine is touted as a natural version of Ozempic, but experts warn that's not only inaccurate, it's a diet culture trap.
By Brittney McNamara
Movies
Check Out America Ferrera’s Barbie Monologue on How 'Impossible' It Is to Be a Woman
“We have to always be extraordinary, but somehow we’re always doing it wrong.”
By Kathleen Walsh
Our Bodies Aren’t Wrong: Author Aubrey Gordon on Weight Stigma and How We Treat Fat Teens
“Our task isn't to make our bodies fit into those systems, but to make those systems recognize our bodies.”
By Brittney McNamara
Khloé Kardashian Posted a Bunch of Unfiltered Bikini Pics to IG
Two years after the drama of bikini-gate.
By Tish Weinstock
Shedding Your “Almond Mom's” Diet Culture Ideals Isn't Easy, But It's Doable
Social media is calling out almond moms everywhere.
By Fortesa Latifi
Lizzo Criticizes All The Body-Related Comments On Her Instagram
She's tired of the obsessive and excessive body discourse, and she's right.
By Aamina Inayat Khan
Billie Eilish Says She Felt Like Her Body Was ‘Gaslighting’ Her for Years
The singer also got real about her passionate campaign to save the planet.
By Charley Ross
Meet Bianca, Disney’s First Plus-Size Animated Character
Bianca is the heroine of “Reflect,” a short film about body image.
By Kara K. Nesvig
Taylor Swift Removes “Fat” Scale From “Anti-Hero” Video
After sparking fatphobia criticism online.
By Kara K. Nesvig
Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero” MV Resorts to the Same Old Fatphobia
For fat people, the anti-heroes live outside of our heads.
By Catherine Mhloyi
Trying to Seem Perfectly Together Was Eating Me Apart
I felt like I was “running on a treadmill that only goes faster.”
By Caralena Peterson
Lizzo Isn't Afraid to Take Up Space
She's showing what happens when a fat Black woman refuses to shrink.
By Brittney McNamara
What Food Shaming Looks Like for Black Women
Humiliating others about what they eat should never be okay.
By Psyche Williams-Forson
The Y2K Style Trend Isn't Fatphobic, Our Attitudes About it Are
The low-cut jeans and crop tops are for fat people if we say they are.
By Emily ZirimisPhotography by Lydia Hudgens