“Good for her. It’s not a competition. Her body has no effect on mine.” I stream this mental playlist over and over when I’m in the weight room staring at another woman’s muscles, or walking down the ...

How many times have you gotten on the scales either at home, at the health club or in the doctor’s office? What are the first thoughts that come through your head when you are about to get on the ...

The media world is making slow progress on the road to body diversity, inching its way towards including different body types, representing a range of sizes, and easing back on Photoshopping. And that ...

Your feed refreshes, and bodies slide past like glossy shop windows. Abs, angles, filters. Your brain does quick maths: compare, rank, shrink. You know it’s curated, still it lands like a soft punch.

In one TikTok video, footage of a thin woman in a one-piece bathing suit transitions to a video of the same woman now proudly displaying her buns of steel in a thongkini: "POV: you traded Pilates for ...