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Body shaming, a prevalent issue in today’s society, deeply impacts the mental and emotional health of countless women. The culture of criticizing or making negative comments about a woman’s body, ...

What do bra fitting and body armor testing have in common? Andrea Porter's dissertation. When Porter took a sabbatical from her career to earn her Ph.D. in multidisciplinary engineering, she never ...

The body-positive movement has encouraged people, especially women, to see beauty in all shapes and sizes, and it's reminded us that body ideals are culturally constructed and not based on science.

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White Western women have lower body appreciation and experience greater pressure from the media to be thin compared to Black Nigerian and Chinese women across all ages, according to new research. The ...

Two things can be true at once: Influencers can be using scare tactics to convince you that you need unnecessary medical tests and some of those unnecessary medical tests might find something ...

If you’ve scrolled through newsfeeds about celebrities or movie award shows, you probably noticed how harsh some of the comments directed at women’s physical appearance can be: “She should eat a ...

"I started to wonder why I was doing this and for who," creator and activist Queen Esie tells PEOPLE Catherine Santino is a Style Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She began contributing to PEOPLE in 2022 ...