Vogue is finally doing something about the prevalence of underage and underweight models in the fashion industry. Nineteen of the magazine’s worldwide publishers have joined together to make a pact to ban models who have eating disorders and any model who is under the age of 16 from appearing in the magazine. The new standard ...
All women are real. I don’t mean to jump the gun, but there, I said it. I’m just so sick of women being separated into two distinct groups, one being “real” and the other “fake.” First of all, it seems downright derogatory to say that any woman is not real. I mean, is she some metaphysical ...
In the name of a flawless face and a perfectly packaged product, Photoshop comes to the rescue. But in the process the picture is altered and unrecognizable from the original. In one (now famous) ad, Julia Roberts no longer looks like the woman we know and love despite the age lines that now appear on ...
Come on everyone! Let’s have a giggle about anorexia! Clearly all of the girls that die every year deserve to be mocked in a costume that pokes fun at their disease. Well, obviously not. But, this is apparently what the creator of “Anna Rexia,” the Halloween costume that is skin tight and features a painted ...
As fashion week is upon us, it is easy to revel in the beauty of the fabrics, shoes, and hair pieces. But with fashion week also comes the fun of watching the impossibly thin models strutting down the runway. It all seems so desirable when looking in from the outside. But as new reports reveal, ...
Anorexics and bulimics are getting younger. Preteens? 8 year olds? 5 year olds? Sadly, yes, to all of the above. Hospitals in the UK have pooled their information from the past couple of years to determine the amount of eating disorder patients they had seen as a whole. Almost 600 cases found the patient under ...
Could we be nearing the end of the era of deformed models and digitally skinny celebrities? Hopefully so. Like smoking, the American Medical Association has declared it bad for your health. AMA voted to adopt a policy to “encourage advertising associations to work with public and private sector organizations” to discourage airbrushing or retouching in ...
Usually a good night out involves talking, laughing, and let’s not forget eating. So as to not spoil a good night, you stuff your face and then when you get home you face the guilt. Unfortunately, a great number of women are pigging out in public and starving in private. Just like anorexics and momorexics, ...
Pregnancy is a time where women should be able to pig out without the guilt. It’s dinner for two every night! But a dangerous new trend reflects that the pressure to be thin is affecting moms. Celebrities like Victoria Beckham, Rachel Zoe and reality star Bethenny Frankel are starving themselves during and post-pregnancy in an ...
Bending over into toilets, bushes, showers or garbage cans, hiding and binging on laxatives, running on treadmills until all calories are burned off, or straight up starving until the pounds disappear, women have been affected by eating disorders for as far back as most could remember. Many have the ability to quell the normal desire ...
The latest film in the American Pie series, American Reunion, contains a shocking scene – male full-frontal nudity including...
Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...
Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...
My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...
Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...
Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...
When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...
