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You know how all day, every day we're inundated with images of women with similar body types (thin) and told, "THIS…

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In August, Barneys New York announced the concept for their holiday windows: A partnership with Disney, called…

I am thirteen and at my first comic/sci-fi expo. I'd had no idea what to expect, and I'm stressed out. The place is…

Three years after noted "Fat-O-Sphere" writer Kate Harding posted a slideshow illustrating how ridiculous the BMI…

Recently, LA-based BBW, adult star, erotic performer and model April Flores went to American Apparel. She asked the…

As Americans freak about the Miss California/gay marriage debacle, Australians are having their own beauty pageant…

In this commercial for Wai Wai noodles, fat woman "noodles" floating in a man's bowl of soup magically transform…

Allure and other Condé Nast magazines like Vogue and Lucky have dropped a ton of weight. In ad pages, that is. The…

Well we talk about unattainable standards of beauty these days, but this Jantzen swimsuit ad from 1954 features an…