Truth in Advertising: The Consequences of Distortion
By Mary Ruben--I have yet to meet someone who has never been personally affected by negative body image or who has never known someone to suffer personally from eating disorders.
Truth in Advertising: False Hopes & Consuming Comparisons
By Nyana Laura Maille--When people look at me, I am surer of the fact that the first thing they see is the color of my skin than anything I have ever been sure of. One hundred percent.
Truth in Advertising: Images Are Not Role Models
By Sylvia Ruiz--When I was in middle school I would always watch what I ate. I wanted to feel pretty & thin enough like everybody else in school and the beautiful girls on my favorite television shows or in my favorite magazines.
Truth in Advertising: Real Women Have Imperfections
By Mei Z.--I’ve grown up with hundreds of mixed messages in my head and it has taken me a long time to figure out the right ones from the wrong. I still struggle with unrealistic images and ideas every day.
Truth in Advertising: Sticks & Stones. Words & Images.
By Shadi Smith--"You're fat!" "She's way to big to be wearing that!" "You will never get a boyfriend if you look like that!" "Talk to me when you have lost 30 pounds!"
Truth in Advertising: Wishing on a Fantasy
By Idalia Cruz--As I can recall, my childhood did not consist of watching a lot of television or flipping through magazines. But in my teenage years, I noticed a change in the girls I knew.
Glee's Harmful Portrayal of Eating Disorders
By Catherine Weingarten--As most TV shows go, Glee has its ups and downs. One recent plotline has been pretty upsetting for me & for others in the eating disorder recovery & activism community.
Photoshop Action: Don't Manipulate
The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty wanted to make a point to industry professionals who rely on photo retouching to "beautify." Check out this video of what they did.
Losing More than Weight: Humiliation, Extreme Dieting & Unhealthy Exercise on The Biggest Loser
By Shirley Wang--Have you heard of “The Biggest Loser”? Odds are, you have. It’s a wildly popular show, featuring Jillian Michaels leading teams of adults on a challenging journey to lose weight.
Body Peace or Body Wars: Seventeen’s BMI Calculator Says Underweight is “Healthy”
By Claire Mysko--Shirley Wang, 17, is recovering from anorexia. When she came across Seventeen's online BMI calculator this week, she was shocked at the results. We were too.
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