Cindy Crawford’s leaked pictures hit back at the tyranny of Photoshop

‘Just last year, a man tweeted me, after we covered a story on food banks, and suggested that maybe if I stopped eating the contents of everyone’s fridge there would be more food for everyone else’

Inside Sydney’s female body-building scene

Competitors eat 10 meals a day, don’t drink and are disparaged for being ‘ugly’ – yet Sydney’s female body building competitions are thriving

Do you really think your fat joke about Chris Christie is funny?

Marianne Kirby: We get it: you think the New Jersey governor is stupid because he’s overweight like so many of the rest of us

‘I feel guilty but I hate my body’: a feminist confesses

She’s a campaigner. She counts calories 24/7. Thinking about food takes up more energy than her career. Does Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett have an eating disorder?

Japan’s pocchari trend celebrates ‘chubby’ women

Japan is a country where thinness is the norm. So can a trend embracing ‘chubbiness’ help young women reject fat-shaming stereotypes? By Abigail Haworth

Why is women’s body image anxiety at such devastating levels?

Almost 10 million women in the UK ‘feel depressed’ because of the way they look, according to new research kicking off Body Confidence Week. But campaigns to address the problem too often miss the point, asks Laura Bates

What I’m really thinking: the tall guy

'My family shows me off as some sort of novelty; women only ever talk about my height, rather than anything interesting; short people act as if I have wronged them somehow'

Nicole Scherzinger addresses eating disorder on new track Big Fat Lie

The track, which is about her battle with bulimia, helped Scherzinger to ‘create something beautiful from ... something that wasn’t once so beautiful’

Do you know what too fat looks like?

A study suggests that African American women in the US have a different picture of what unhealthy weight looks like than medical experts, prompting suggestions that pictures should be more widely used with health messages to counter the new normality of excess weight

Ex-EastEnders star criticises Disney for unrealistic depiction of women

Tamzin Outhwaite says princesses with tiny waists waiting to be rescued by men was not a good role model for her daughters

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