Body Image

Our relationships with our own bodies: how we see and feel about all or some of our parts, the good, the bad, and the work-in-progress.

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Seven Ways to Love Your Body

  • Ophira Edut

This is not another diet guide. It will not show you how to lose ten pounds by Thanksgiving. It will not introduce you to a new set of “miracle ab crunches” or rave about the latest liposuction advances. And there will be no butt pads, silicone, or fat-free recipes to share.

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Frankenboobs

  • Audra Williams

I was about 14 I started to realize that only one of my breasts was developing. That’s weird, I thought. Oh well, puberty is weird, bodies are weird, it will all work out eventually. I was about 17 when I realized it probably wouldn’t. Damn. Somehow I had ended up with one D cup breast and one A cup breast. Imagine, if you will: at this point I am a dancer. I am a teenage girl. I am sexually active. I am utterly mortified. Sort of.

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Life Lessons from the Third Stall on the Left

  • Heather Corinna

Everything I needed to know about body image I learned in a bathroom in the seventh grade. Well, almost everything.