Why can’t every day be like Halloween? Women should have freedom to wear what they want without judgment, harassment or shaming. Allie’s on it:
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Nawat Itsaragrisil, owner of the Miss Grand International beauty contest, reportedly tried to force Icelandic beauty queen Arna Ýr Jónsdóttir to lose weight, telling her to "stop eating breakfast." Her response: F*ck that, I’m out. She posted her awesome resignation letter to Itsaragrisil on Instagram. And good news: This won’t be the last you see of Jónsdóttir.
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It took Ariel Winter years to accept and love her body just the way it is. So if you’re not there yet, that’s OK. In an interview with Mic, Winter explained what she wishes she had when she was younger.
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Mic writer Hayley Wilbur notes that perhaps even more troubling than Lovato's initial body-shaming comment was her defense of it.
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On Friday's episode of her podcast Loveline With Amber Rose, Rose discussed her salsa dance to "Booty," on Dancing With the Stars. Judge Julianne Hough reportedly said the routine made her uncomfortable. Rose said she wasn’t mad at Hough but would rather say something else to her.
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In July, Playboy Playmate Dani Mathers did a very Mean Girls thing and body shamed a naked stranger at her gym on Snapchat. Now, her cyberbullying is coming back to bite her: Mathers could face jail time for her actions. The LAPD has even launched an investigation.
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We like to think children are mostly free from adult worries, but at least when it comes to body image and relationships to food, a new study shows that's not the case. Research from the Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years revealed children as young as 3 years old can already be body conscious — but there might be a solution.
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British tabloid the Sun tried — and failed — Sunday to body shame former X Factor UK contestant Stacey Solomon by comparing her breasts to X Factor UK alum Louisa Johnson's. While this is unfortunately a narrative that tabloids so often weave, Solomon voiced a body-positive message to her 180,000 Instagram followers who quickly came to her defense to call out the Sun.
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Popular mommy blogger Constance Hall was at first insulted when a salesperson told her that she should be shopping for a bigger size. But Hall quickly realized that she was actually shaming her own body by believing she needed to be able to fit into a size 6. Her body-positive post has over 2,000 comments and many women have shared their own photos and stories.
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Egypt's state media, the Egyptian Radio and Television Union, has suspended eight women news anchors for a month, telling them to lose weight before they can be on TV again, In a Facebook post translated by the BBC, the Women's Centre for Guidance and Legal Awareness, a global women's rights group, commented on ERTU's decision.
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Fashion blogger Liz Black, who runs the blog P.S. It's Fashion, thinks sample sizes are completely unrealistic. And in order to prove it, Black gathered a number of designer gowns in sample sizes and tried them on. It's true: An alarming percentage of women would not be able to fit these dresses.
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Apparently the folks over at this Gold's Gym franchise think that sharing mean-spirited and body-shaming memes on Facebook is a totally reasonable way to bring in new customers — because they keep doing it. After a swarm of criticism, the gym appended a bizarre, non-apology to the post.
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The phrase "swimmer's body" typically conjures an image of a body that is trim and lean. That's especially true at the Olympics, where the majority of athletes are in peak physical condition. But what happens when an Olympic swimmer's body deviates from this norm? You gets body-shamed on Twitter like Robel Kiros Habte. Many users even speculated about how Habte was able to compete, citing a reason about his family.
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This week, Twitter users viciously body-shamed Alexa Moreno. Many of the tweets called her fat and some even compared her to a pig. The reality is that there's a long history of female Olympic athletes being body-shamed, particularly gymnasts, unlike their less scrutinized male peers. That sexist scrutiny is only made worse by one very problematic component of the Olympics tradition.
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