Girls as young as 7 feel pressure to be pretty – body confidence study

Girlguiding UK warns of society’s focus on appearance as survey shows 36% of girls aged 7-10 believe looks to be paramount

British Vogue ditches models in favour of ‘real’ women – for one issue

Magazine recruits academics and CEOs to wear designer labels, though cover star Emily Blunt confesses to spending ‘three hours in hair and makeup’

I had heard clean eating made you feel better – but for me it went wrong

My healthy eating plan led to anorexia and depression. Food bloggers should make it clear that everything is OK in moderation

Bishop campaigns to highlight issue of body image among children

Bishop of Gloucester Rachel Treweek is holding series of talks with teenagers to challenge perceptions about appearance

From Poldark to Bieber, there’s a male body ideal but is it problematic?

Celebs, selfies and Instagram are fuelling a gym obsession driven by guilt, say academics, but there could be a wider societal explanation

Thinner, smoother, better: in the era of retouching, that’s what girls have to be

Young women know all about image manipulation – they do it to themselves these days. But that doesn’t mean they’re immune to its toxic effects

Fashion industry told to end its quest for ‘unattainable thinness’

Women’s Equality party demands changes to industry and a minimum body mass index for models

Two models, one goal: to free women from fashion’s weight tyranny

As London fashion week opens, Rosie Nelson and Jada Sezer have joined a Women’s Equality party campaign to tackle the use of tiny clothing sizes, underweight models – and the resulting crisis of eating disorders

Why has women’s fitness become a beauty contest?

Sport is supposed to be fun and liberating – instead it’s being used to make us feel bad about our bodies