Real Women Have Curves

Check out this video about a young woman in England who is the first plus-size person to compete in the Miss England finals.
Although I am not the biggest fan of beauty competitions, I have great respect for anyone daring to push the boundaries of the beauty industry.  So I say, kudos and good luck to [...]

Mika, You Are Beautiful

Here is my newest youtube obsession: a British pop star who sounds like Freddie Mercury and sings about gay relationships, fat women, and Grace Kelly.  *swoon*
Here’s Mika’s “Big Girl (You are Beautiful),” which was introduced to me by dashaway over the weekend:

Fat discrimination worse for women

I’ve been wanting to blog on size acceptance and health for quite a while.  I’ll just start by mentioning this study that shows fat discrimination to be (1) bad for everyone, but (2) particularly bad for women.  Of course this all makes sense with society’s focus and scrutiny often being on the female body.  From [...]