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Body Image and Beyoncé

This is a picture of Beyoncé, who was shot by Ellen von Unwerth for Spain’s DT Lux magazine in February of this year – just one month after giving birth to baby Blue. She looks, quite simply,...

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The Fairest Of Them All

I see Samantha Brick, who created an internet sensation back in April when she wrote an article for MailOnline in which she claimed that all other women hate her for being beautiful, or some such...

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Size Is Just A Number

“Everything you see, I owe to spaghetti.” ~ Sophia Loren So I’ve been reading some of the publicity around Robyn Lawley (above) becoming the first ‘plus size’ face of Ralph Lauren. Plus size of course...

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It Is, As It Ever Was

“I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto – the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones.” ~ Sophia Loren One thing I have...

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How to Trim Your Waistline AND Your Carbon Footprint, Without Even Thinking...

“We kindly remind you that calories are for eating not counting.” ~ from the bottom of a restaurant menu in Oslo. Dieting doesn’t work. The entire existence of the dieting industry is a testament to...

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A Useless Object?

Why do so many people own bathroom scales? What is the point of them? I mean, I know they tell you how much you weigh, but why do you need to know to the nearest kilogram? Competitive fighters need to...

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What is the problem to which banishing these images would be the solution?

In the last week a few people in my Facebook and Twitter feeds have posted about encouraging the fashion and advertising industries not to use underweight models. They think that normal looking women...

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And your heels so high that you can’t even have a good time…

I find myself getting disproportionately annoyed whenever I see groups of middle-aged women tottering around town like teenagers, wearing high heeled shoes that they can’t walk in properly. Surely by...

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Fat Is A PTSD Issue

“If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat – in other words, turn you into an adult.” ~ P. J. O’Rourke So, I think I’ve mentioned a few times...

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Nail Art – Just What The Doctor Ordered

“No one likes getting their nails done more than I do.” ~ Serena Williams I got my nails done. As my doctor prescribed. In April last year I began having appointments with my doctor at least once a...

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Because A Pretty Corpse Is No Use To Anyone

(Getty Images/Jose Juan Garcia) “It’s not my responsibility to be beautiful. I’m not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.” ~ Warsan Shire Like many other people...

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