Where machismo meets tiny gold pants: the bodybuilding art of Alix Marie

With her show Shredded, full of bulging bodies sweating under bright lights, the artist lays bare the fascinating, surreal world of inflatable musclemen

Body positivity can come in many forms – even a custom-made wedding dress

After three years of talking to tailors and women living in large bodies, I learned that there’s joy to be found in garments made to fit you perfectly

How much does poor body image affect mental health?

Having concerns about how you look is not in itself a mental illness, but can trigger a range of problems

One in three UK teenagers ‘ashamed of their body’

Findings prompt calls for weight loss ads to be vetted and social media firms to pay levy

What gets you hot? The sweaty, brutally honest show about bodies

They were a couple doing a performance about women, sex and bodily fluids. Then they broke up – and made it more explicit. Meet the duo behind Hotter

We’re deluged with images of ‘beauty’. No wonder so many of us feel so bad

Adverts for weight-loss and cosmetic procedures bombard us on social media, undermining our self-confidence, says the Guardian columnist Dawn Foster

Avengers: Endgame was brilliant – but the fat shaming broke my heart

Using a fat person as a punchline is cheap and lazy. So why was everyone in the cinema audience laughing except me?

Sofie Hagen: ‘Fat is a neutral word – I want us to reclaim it’

In her first book, the Danish comedian is calling for fat liberation – and happiness. She talks about anti-capitalism, abuse and how her view of her body changed overnight

Sorry, guys, you can’t be an actor and moan about body image

Richard Madden is the latest actor to reveal the stress of having to achieve a certain body type. Isn’t that his job, asks Guardian columnist Suzanne Moore

James Corden is right: chubby bodies like mine should not be confined to radio

I might have felt uncomfortable with my cameo in Sex Lives of the Potato Men, but things will never change until we see more realistic body shapes on our screens