The rise of the body neutrality movement: ‘If you’re fat, you don’t have to hate yourself’

Instead of emphasising the need to love how you look, concepts such as body neutrality, fat acceptance and body respect are allowing women to make peace with their bodies

Social media and celebrity culture ‘harming young people’

Young people’s mental health damaged by ‘unobtainable’ body image in online world

Writer Chidera Eggerue on what #SaggyBoobsMatter is really about

She started a movement with one simple question: why should only small-boobed women go braless? Now, Eggerue has written a book she calls an antidote to the self-help scene

How do I get a six-pack? You asked Google – here’s the answer

Every day millions of people ask Google life’s most difficult questions. Personal trainer Emma Oko answers this one

‘Get shredded in six weeks!’ The problem with extreme male body transformations

Men’s Health magazine has transformed many men – and its own fortunes – by featuring extreme muscle makeovers. But does changing shape fast have a dark side?

What’s it like to be 6ft 8in tall?

Nicholas Kulish is dizzyingly tall. No, he doesn’t play basketball. Yes, the weather’s fine up here. He’s so heard it all before, now he’d like to give some back. Here, he presents his very own view…

Amy Schumer’s new film shows Hollywood is the Sunken Place for smart women

Schumer claims I Feel Pretty is all about helping women’s self-esteem when it is in fact one long sneer at her and anyone else who doesn’t look like Emily Ratajkowski

I am 13 and hate what I see in the mirror

Being what you may think of as thin or pretty doesn’t change how you feel inside, says Annalisa Barbieri

From the archive: big girls are back

It’s 1986 and the Observer is wondering if we will ever escape our fixation with thin women

Anti Diet Riot Club: the body-positivity meetings taking on ‘diet culture’

From life drawing to yoga for all sizes, new monthly meetups are taking the ‘BoPo’ movement off the web and into the real world