Skin Cancer Risk from Wearing a Bikini to Feel Confident

It's not about self-love. Perhaps some plus-size women want to be covered up at the beach to protect against skin cancer. Maybe the next full size woman you see covered up at the beach already [...]

Wearing a Bikini if You’re Fat Won’t Help Your Self-Esteem

Lately there’s a movement sweeping the nation: If you’re fat with poor self-esteem, you can cure this by wearing a bikini to the beach.  […]

Why It’s OK for Plus Size Women to Want a Slim Body

If you’re plus size and want a slim body, there's nothing wrong with this. It's a myth that the only road to fat loss is to starve or develop an eating disorder. Now before I [...]

Why the Word “Fat” is Nothing to Be Body Positive About

Fat SHOULD be something to fear -- when there's too much of it in your body. This isn't phobia. It's medicine. It's facts. Do not be "Factphobic." Plus size women who campaign for body positivity [...]

Why Doesn’t the Body Positive Movement Include Muscular Women?

Where are the muscular women in the body positive movement? All we see are women ranging from moderately overweight to morbidly obese.  The body positive movement has excluded muscular women, creating the illusion that there’s [...]

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