By Armelle Djoukoue With the advent of Photoshop in the design industry, it has been easy for the media NOT to keep it real. Photoshop has allowed advertisers to give cover models a little superficial…
By Carolina Costa “Love your body and treat it well!” or “Beauty has no color” were some of the messages posted on sticky notes around the UMKC campus during the last week of February.…
By Emily Mathis One of the most read blogs on our site is from a while ago and is about Barbie’s positive influence. While, I agree that Barbie has some positive effects, I wonder if…
By Devon White [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTlmho_RovY[/youtube] Young people today live in a society where body image expectations are high and their physical appearance holds more importance than character and skill sets. The perfectionism pushed onto women from…
Are you too big to model? How would you feel if you thought you weren’t fat, but people in the fashion industry felt you were? What if they told you that you needed to lose…
In the past week, Australia announced the first body-image initiative in the world. According to a recent article, the initiative is a voluntary code that media and modeling agencies, as well as others, can choose…
By now, you’ve probably either read something or heard something about a recent decision by Spain to curb the amount of advertising for cosmetic surgery, weight-loss pharmaceuticals, and certain beauty treatments on their airwaves. According…
As one might expect, the topics of female body image and eating disorders is an oft discussed topic here at the Women’s Center. We already have several entries in our blog achieves which deal with…
Many people are aware of the serious nature of eating disorders, but sometimes stereotypes and myths can distort our perception of the illnesses. We think that individuals with eating disorders should look or act a…
As I reported in a previous blog, eating disorders are dangerous for women. From another recent article, I learned that they are especially dangerous for women who are pregnant. According to the article, generally, it…