Body image

Former British model Katie Piper reveals how far she has come since she had sulphuric acid thrown on her face by a man hired by her ex-boyfriend. “When I look in the mirror, my scars no longer upset me,” inspiring survivor has said. “They just remind me I am stronger than the person who tried […]

Jessica Simpson gets candid about her weight struggles and her husband’s enduring support. Jessica,34, may now be in the best shape of her life but that wasn’t always the case for the bubbly blonde.  The mum of two has made no secret about her struggles with her weight – especially her post baby-body, now she […]

Australian Idol winner Kate DeAraugo wept tears of joy when she saw herself in her first bikini. This was the moment she’d been waiting for after a lifetime of struggling with her weight. Kate admits she often cried herself to sleep and has never liked what she saw in the mirror – until now. “It […]

It was only two months ago that actress Mila Kunis gave birth to her daughter Wyatt, but the star has revealed her tips to getting back into shape.

Women prefer a slim, toned body like Cameron Diaz, but men prefer a more curvier shape like Kate Upton.

It’s no surprise that women want a slim and toned body like actress Cameron Diaz. But what is surprising is the difference between what women and men consider as the most wanted figure. A study, which was conducted by both Men’s HealthUK andWomen’s HealthUK magazines, revealed that while Cameron Diaz has women’s ultimate figure, the gents […]

Neringa Rekasiute Photography highlights impossible body image standards.

Designer Nickolay Lamm has fashioned the anti-Barbie – an 11-inch doll featuring generous proportions, flat feet, minimal makeup, without giant perky breasts. While that toy concept might sound super refreshing  for an extra six bucks you can purchase a page of 38 reusable stickers, made of clear vinyl, which will allow you to decorate your […]

The 26-year-old Canadian model has expressed her dislike of the terms, 'plus-size model' and 'real women'.

The 26-year-old Canadian model has expressed her dislike of the terms, ‘plus-size model’ and ‘real women’ to the Huffington Post, saying she doesn’t like people labelling models. “I have spoken out on the whole subject of plus-size models — I don’t even like a title: petite, short, high fashion, runway. It should all just be in […]

Brisbane mum Julie Cross has caused an internet sensation after a swimwear photo she posted on Facebook has garnered more than 128,000 likes and 2,700 shares in less than 24 hours. The 46-year-old mother-of-two explains she was prompted to share a bikini snap of herself after she overheard a group of young people making snarky remarks […]

The advertisement that featured the slogan “the perfect body” over an image of 10 supermodels has suddenly disappeared from the company’s website. The image has remained the same but the words have changed to: “A body for every body.” The new Victoria’s Secret ad. The new Victoria’s Secret ad. The advertisement became the target of […]

It's a world famous lingerie brand that has some of the world's fittest models in its shows, but Victoria's Secret has come under fire for their latest campaign.

Actress Rene Russo has shared her tips for staying sexy at 60.

On Monday night Elle Magazine held its star-studded Women in Hollywood event but by Tuesday morning all anybody was talking about was the transformation of Renee Zellweger’s face.

A girl born with a curved spine defies expectations to become a fashion model before quitting after realising she was sending a superficial message.

Actress Jennifer Garner has defended her body following speculation that she was expecting her fourth baby with husband and actor Ben Affleck.

Women who go up a few dress sizes after their mid-20’s have a greater risk developing breast cancer after menopause, say researchers at University College London. While obesity has long been considered a risk factor for cancer, British researchers have found that a woman’s thickening waist line between the ages of 20 and 64 actually […]

As football fever sweeps through the nation let's not get so overwhelmed with excitement that we forget many of the AFL's WAGs are mums and not models.

Super fit Brisbane mum Sally Brouwer says she wasn't fat shaming new mums when she posted a pregnancy and post-pregnancy shot of herself on social media.

Super fit Brisbane mum Sally Brouwer says she wasn’t fat shaming new mums when she posted a pregnancy and post-pregnancy shot of herself on social media. The mother-of-three came under fire from other mothers when she shared photos on her Facebook page, showing her pregnant self and her transformation after losing 17 kilograms. “I can’t see […]

While most western women might struggle to imagine any upsides to wearing a veil over their faces, a new study suggests that the hijab actually shields women from developing a negative body image. The study, published in British Journal of Psychology, interviewed 587 Muslim women in the UK – of these 369 wore some sort […]

Kate Hudson says it's important for girls to love themselves.

New York Fashion Week typically excludes women larger than a size six but this year curvier models are set to take the catwalk.

Beautiful South African actress, Charlize Theron has opened up about her body image.

Loveyourlines is latest body love campaign to sweep through social media  encouraging women to celebrate their stretch marks.

New research finds children as young as eight worry about their weight.

TV presenter Kelly Osbourne is launching a new clothing line for women of all sizes.

The controversial hashtag is encouraging curvy women on social media to share images of themselves in swimwear to push retailers to design bikinis in bigger sizes.

A mother-of-five who was taunted on a beach for having stretch marks has received overwhelming support after she penned an open letter to the group that publicly humiliated her.

Tom Ford thinks it's not just the ladies who are guilty of wondering 'does my bum look big in this?'

Fossils of 200,000 year-old cavewomen have revealed that millennia ago, women’s hips were several inches wider and their bodies thick-set, meaning that “women may have been bigger than an average modern man,” says Dr Laura Gruss, of Radford University in Virginia. The reason for this evolution in body shape was child-bearing, says Dr Gruss. Wide […]

Supermodel Elle Macpherson has come out this week saying she’s not interested looking internally youthful and strives to age gracefully.

Robyn Lawley joins other voluptuous models for a sexy Sports Illustrated style swimsuit calendar.

Robyn Lawley joins other voluptuous models for a sexy Sports Illustrated style swimsuit calendar.

See which stars over 40 aren't afraid to slip on a skimpy bikini when summer rolls around.

In her gutsy revelation, the American Idol winner told US Today show anchor, Jenna Bush Hager she felt comfortable in her skin and wanted other women to not feel bullied by the number on the scale. “I fluctuate a bit. I go anywhere from 155 to 161 pounds,” said Sparks. “That is how much I […]

Ovarian cancer survivor and model Elly Mayday has once again stood up as a body warrior for women in a new documentary about the fashion industry.

While skinny models continue stealing the spotlight at fashion week key players in fashion have united to launch a new industry body.

Super-skinny model Cassi van den Dungen has denied rumours that she spent a night on a drip before she walked the runway at Australian Fashion Week.

The skeletal models strutting the catwalk at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Australia have been making headlines across the country, but some of our most influential fashion editors think the annual debate is a frustrating waste of time.

Despite a world-famous Victoria's Secret Angel and many, athletic looking models walking in Alex Perry's show the skinny-model debate has exploded today.

Curvaceous Aussie model Robyn Lawley has landed the cover of US Cosmo in her first ever full beauty spread.

A medical expert has slammed plus-size dummies because they "normalise" being overweight.

She might have lost her hair to chemotherapy, but Elly Mayday hasn't let cancer kill her modelling dreams.

The brutal aftermath of plastic surgery has been captured in a series of arresting portraits.

Yoga enthusiast Laura Kasperzak’s amazing family photos have made her famous overnight.

Women Photoshopped to look like cover models have surprising reactions

The Weekly has obtained an exclusive skinny about the 23-year-old’s signing and her hopes of what impact the deal might have on the wider fashion community.

These crazy products promise to help you lose weight - but the only thing they prove is that people will try anything except exercise!

A woman who posted candid images of her post-cancer surgery body online was horrified when more than 100 people "unfriended" her.

Kylie Minogue has one of the most famous bottoms in the world and it seem she's just as willing to show it off at 45 as she was at 20.

Lena Dunham is famous for her "real" body but the realities of her figure were too much for Vogue, who chose to Photoshop her into faux perfection instead.

At 68, Diane Keaton is still one of the world's most beautiful women but she obviously doesn't look good enough for L'Oreal, which has been accused of over-airbrushing her for a new ad.

Is this the new 'Movember' for women?

Mission Australia’s annual youth report found approximately a third of more than 1400 participants had serious body image concerns, making it one of the top three personal concerns among men and women aged 15-19 for the fourth year in a row. Butterfly Foundation CEO Christine Morgan has called on government portfolios to work together and […]

The country’s largest teen survey, Mission Australia’s youth report, highlighted the top three personal concerns for young people aged 15-19. Surveying more than 14,000 young Australians, the report found that both males and females listed stress, study and body image as their greatest concerns. Both genders cited the Internet as where they were most comfortable […]

She may be one of the world's leading plus-size models but you won't see a piece especially designed for curvier women in Robyn Lawley's latest campaign as the face of French lingerie, Chantelle.

Appearing on the cover of Elle Spain, size 16 beauty Tara Lynn reluctantly confessed she supported the using skinny models to sell clothing, admitting clothes looked best on bodies with less fat. “It is hard to make clothes look great on big women,” she said. “The more fat there is on a body, the more […]

During an interview with actress and friend Jessica Chastain at the Lincoln Centre in New York City, the 80-year-old designer said he thought models often looked lifeless once they had been airbrushed. “We are easily in a period of over-retouching,” he said. “Some models end up looking as if they are coming out of a […]

The clip, posted on GlobalDemocracy.com, shows a blonde model arriving at a photo shoot bare-faced and with un-styled hair. The studio’s lighting is then switched on, making the model look slimmer, before a hair and makeup artist works her magic, adding lashings of cosmetics and a hairpiece, dramatically altering the model’s appearance. The photo is […]

Australia's size 16 supermodel Robyn Lawley has posed for a saucy topless shoot proving just how sexy curves can be.

Hollywood is full of stick-thin celebrities but Rebel Wilson is glad she's not one of them.

Five years after she became the first plus-sized winner of America’s Next Top Model Whitney Thompson has showed off her curves in a sexy lingerie campaign. Whitney, 26, is the new face of underwear brand Panache’s Sculptresse collection, which comes in sizes 14 to 24 and D to J cups. “As a curvy girl, I […]

Curvaceous comedian Rebel Wilson has hit back at critics who say she relies on jokes about her weight.

Supermodels Naomi Campbell and Iman are leading the charge to battle racism and promote diversity on the runway at New York Fashion Week. As part of an advocacy group called “Diversity Coalition”, the models have named and shamed high profile designers who they say are sending a negative message by using a virtually all-white cast […]

She may be known for her figure but model Robyn Lawley doesn’t want to be a “figurehead” for plus-size women, and says promoting ‘curves’ is just as bad as making women feel pressured to be thin. The Australian model made her statements in an interview with The Guardian saying promoting a curvy figure as an […]

It’s a scenario that is only too familiar to many mums — your 12-year-old daughter needs a bra, but the racks are packed with lacy, push-up, padded contraptions that leave them looking like a Victoria’s Secret model. With two tween daughters, Melbourne mum Jo Konstandinou was looking forward to taking her girls shopping for their […]

Ewan McGregor has battled Darth Vader, Somali warlords and a killer tsunami but it's the fight against body demons that has him rattled.

Australian model Robyn Lawley has launched her own sexy plus-sized swimwear range. Robyn, 24, has teamed up with Bond-Eye Australia to launch a glamorous collection of bikinis and one-pieces in sizes 12 to 22. The curvy size 16 beauty said her own struggle to find swimwear that wasn’t “boring” and “unflattering” inspired her line. “I […]

A photographer has showcased the toll childbirth takes on the human body in a series of beautiful portraits of real mums. Dispelling the myth that women snap back into shape within weeks of giving birth, the images show all the stretch marks, lumps and bumps that come with pregnancy and often linger long after. Mother-of-one […]

A UK department store has kick-started an anti-airbrushing campaign by releasing provocative before and after retouching pictures. The images — which feature a lingerie model — have gone viral on social media, being shared more than 40,000 times in 24 hours. One image shows the model in her natural state, another shows her marked up […]

In the late 1990s, the editor ofVogue, Kirstie Clements, was casting for swimsuit models in Sydney, but she decided none of the gorgeous young women were “suitable” to wear a bikini. As she gave up and went to purchase a sandwich at the cafe across the road, she passed the Northside Clinic, which specialises in […]

Global retail giant H&M has pledged to use healthy models in its advertising and admitted that in the past the company has irresponsibly promoted too-thin models and in doing so, promoted an unhealthy body image. CEO Karl-John Persson made the admission on the topic of model health speaking with Metro. Related: Mainstream fashion’s first size […]

They can’t read or write but four-year-old kids have already learnt to hate fat people. A Leeds University study found that children are overtly prejudiced against overweight people by the time they start kindergarten. Researchers showed 126 boys and girls aged four to six three versions of a specially-created story book. The story was exactly […]

While big name designers are still sending scarily-skinny girls down catwalks around the world, retail giant H&M has decided to champion a curvier beauty ideal. The clothing company’s new summer campaign features Jennie Runk, a size 16 model, in a collection of sexy swimsuits. What’s more, the retailer has skipped the usually ubiquitous “plus-size” tag […]

Carla Bruni has opened up about her body image battle following the birth of her daughter Giulia in 2011.

Fashion magazines are not known for celebrating curves but Elle Quebec has bucked the trend by elevating a plus-size model to covergirl status in its most recent issue. French-Canadian model Justine Legault, who wears the equivalent of an Australian size 16, is the first plus-size model to grace the cover of the mainstream magazine. The […]

If you thought sexy bikinis were only forSports Illustratedmodels, take it up with plus-size fashion blogger Gabi Gregg and she’ll teach you a thing or two. The 25-year-old’s blogGabiFreshshot to fame last year with this post where Gabi, who wears a US size 18, showed stunning holiday snaps in her ‘fatkini’, inspiring full-figured women to […]

A graphic new anti-anorexia ad campaign has been shared hundreds of thousands of times on social networks. The ‘Say no to anorexia’ images — created by Brazilian modelling agency Star Models — use Photoshop to stretch shockingly thin women to resemble life-size fashion illustrations. The digitally manipulated models appear next to a typical designer’s sketch […]

A Swedish modelling agency has been accused of staking out a treatment centre for eating disorders scouting for anorexic ‘talent’. Director of the Stockholm clinic Anna-Maria af Sandeberg said head hunters had approached ill patients, one wheelchair bound, hoping to recruit them. Kirstie Clements: Thin is in because designers demand it “They were outside the […]

A woman dropped by her modelling agency at size 10 for being ‘too big’ has launched her own agency to help ‘normal-sized’ women break into the fashion industry. The UK model, Saffi Karina, “failed” to maintain a figure consistent with the standards of a thin-obsessed fashion industry when “womanhood ensued” and she was told her […]

Fashion bloggers are airbrushing images of scarily thin models to make them appear more healthy but the Melbourne girl whose anti-airbrushing protest prompted Cleo magazine to reconsider its retouching policy says it’s never ok to publish altered images of women’s bodies. The Weekly reported yesterday that images of models at Australian fashion week were being […]

Skinny women are the norm at Fashion Week, but the waifs walking the runway at this year’s shows are thin even by model standards. Top designer Alex Perry has defended his choice of models, claiming he ran out of time to find healthier-sized girls, but former Vogue editor Kirstie Clements says as far as most […]

Models at Australian fashion week are so shockingly thin fashion bloggers are Photoshopping them to cover up their protruding bones. Fashion publications are often lambasted for using Photoshop to slim down models and celebrities but while covering Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia, editor of fashion blog Style Melbourne Sarah Willcocks, has had to smooth out one […]

Like hundreds of celebrities before her, Barbie has been photographed without makeup — to the delight of social media users around the world. The images — created by graphic designer Eddi Aguirre — show what Barbie would look like without her war paint, and it’s not pretty. Instead of her usual flawless look, Barbie sports […]

With a quarter of Aussie kids now overweight or obese and thousands of others battling eating disorders, mum-of-two Zoe Arnold asks if it’s possible to raise kids with no body image hang-ups. Fat kids are becoming normal, just like fat adults. Visit any suburban mall and overweight families appear to outnumber average-sized people. But what […]

Images of the “normal-sized” mannequins on display at a Swedish department store have been shared more than one million times on social networks. The size 12 figurines have been used in all 76 Åhléns stores since 2010, but have only appeared online in the past week, when a blogger posted a picture on Facebook. The […]

Parents are concerned that kids are growing up too quickly with influences like constant engagement with technology, social media, and pressure to be “macho” or “sexy” cutting childhood short. A UK survey found that 90 per cent of parents think modern children are growing up faster than ever, and body image is their biggest concern. […]

A French fashion magazine has caused controversy by “blacking up” 16-year-old white model for a photo shoot entitled “African Queen”. Ondria Hardin appears in the March issue of Numéro magazine “heavily bronzed” to resemble a black woman. The teen model — who usually sports blonde hair and very pale skin — wears an African-style headdress […]

Mannequins have never represented Miss Average but today’s store dummies look more like porn stars. Former Vogue editor Kirstie Clements questions how we can hope to raise well-adjusted girls when our kids are constantly bombarded with sexually explicit images. Yesterday, I spent the day in Brisbane making an in-store appearance for Sportscraft with glamorous model/mum […]

The fashion industry has been accused of promoting “manorexia” after an array of shockingly thin male models were sent down the catwalk at Paris Fashion Week. Designer YSL was criticised on the blogosphere for “woefully irresponsible model casting” as a photo of an emaciated model prompted a barrage of responses on social media. Photoshop fail: […]

This provocative image has sparked an international debate about what women's skirt lengths say about their sexual habits.

Barbie has been an astronaut, a pilot and a doctor but in the 1960s, all she wanted to do was starve herself to lose weight. The controversial ‘Slumber Party Barbie’ was released in 1965, and came with a set of pink scales permanently set to a tiny 110lbs (50kg) and a diet book entitled ‘How […]

Anna Nicole Smith’s daughter has landed her first modelling job at the tender age of six. Danielynn is the new face of Guess, the same brand her mother modelled for before her death from a drug overdose in 2007. The campaign has outraged parenting experts who think young girls should be sheltered from the spotlight […]

Hugh Jackman is back in Sydney and leaving half of Bondi swooning with his sexy body.

Her scarily-thin frame sparked controversy last year but the backlash doesn't seem to have affected Candice Swanepoel, who has posted a picture of her concave stomach on Twitter.

Thousands of Australian women would love to look half as good as these lovely lingerie models, but a British doctor thinks two of them are overweight, while one is obese. The five models above feature in a shapewear campaign for UK department store Marks and Spencer. Like many ordinary women, they range in size from […]

After years of being bullied and feeling bad about her body, 18-year-old Stella Boonshoft did not expect to be overwhelmed with positive feedback after an image she posted on her blog wearing only her underwear went viral last week. The photograph of the size 16 New York student and the impassioned blog post that accompanied […]

Following the release of shocking figures that more than half of the UK’s hospital admissions for eating disorders were under-20 and some of those under-10, social media has copped much of the blame for contributing to the development of eating disorders in “the Facebook generation”. Teen and pre-teen eating disorders are on the rise with […]