While most women perceive cellulite as an ongoing battle, one body-positive activist on Instagram is urging others to show it off in the hopes of normalizing it. That activist is Kenzie Brenna and she started the hashtag #CelluliteSaturday months ago as a way of confronting her own insecurities about her cellulite. In an early post…
An Imgur post about the conflation of gym culture and body shaming is going viral for all the right reasons. The post, shared by a frequent gym attendee, discusses the many ways in which people at the gym make assumptions about others based on their appearances. The user introduced the post by expressing her own…
Lea Michele is floating on air right now. In the November cover feature of Shape, the 30-year-old actress and star of Scream Queens revealed that she’s back in love . . . with herself. “I realize how lucky I am,” she told Shape. “I have an amazing job, great opportunities, and a fantastic family and…
Gigi Hadid is packing a mean punch as the new face of Reebok’s #PerfectNever campaign. She’s lacing up her gloves in an effort to promote empowering females to ignore criticism and embrace their imperfections. Oh, and “she will f*ck you up,” according to one of her hairstylists. The 21-year-old supermodel joined forces with the Reebok…
When you’re posting a picture of yourself to social media, you always want to choose the best angle, most flattering lighting, and photo option in which you look the fittest . . . right? Four fitness influencers took to social media to do just the opposite. Why? To prove a major point about the idea…
Have you ever had someone take a picture of you sitting on the beach, lounging by the pool, or leaned over with your stomach exposed and thought “I look so fat!“? 5 Things E V E R Y Woman Should Read: 1. We ALL have rolls when we sit down or bend over. Body fat…
Is calorie counting a thing of the past? For some women, the answer is “hell yeah!,” and I’m in major support of this movement. Throughout my whole life, I’ve noticed how calorie counting has had this uncanny ability to create an incredibly unhealthy relationship between a woman and her food – starting as early as…
After gaining weight postpregnancy, Taryn Brumfitt decided she was going to get in the best shape of her life. Once she did, however, she didn’t gain the self-confidence she had imagined. That’s when she decided to embark on a journey that would attempt to decipher the ongoing global obsession with attaining a certain body. That…
