My belly ache: Will Storr’s battle for a flat stomach

For years, Will Storr was nothing but skin and bone. Then he discovered lager, pasta and Revels – and an obsession with the size of his gut

Jennifer Lawrence is striking a blow for healthy, sweaty women

Muireann Carey-Campbell: Shock, horror – a female film star says she wants to be 'fit and strong'. But the more women she gets into the gym the better

How cosmetic surgery is changing the shape of Venezuela’s mannequins

Shop-window dummies with enlarged breasts, tiny waists and unnaturally sculpted rears are catering for the national obsession with implants and plastic surgery

A size 16 mannequin with a flat stomach? Excuse me if I don’t rejoice, Debenhams

Harriet Walker: You told us: To reduce the complex psychology surrounding body image to the waist span of a mannequin is to utterly miss the point

Debenhams to display size 16 mannequins across UK stores

Retailer urges other stores to follow its lead in using mannequins that reflect the average size of women in UK

Debenhams’ size 16 mannequins are great. Now we need even more diversity

Jane Martinson: The high-street retailer's move sets the lead for others to follow. Perhaps now we can hope for a healthier attitude to body shapes

The thigh-gap obsession is not new but it’s the most extreme body fixation yet

Young women worrying about thigh fat is not a passing fad. So what advice can we offer, wonders Hadley Freeman

How the ‘thigh gap’ became the latest pressure point on a woman’s self-image

Once, only models were determined to make sure that their legs didn't touch. Now it has become a widespread, harmful – and often unachievable – obsession

Body Gossip puts spotlight on models and body image

Jane Martinson: The campaign group is challenging clothes retailers to use a wider range of models and government to do more to support young people

Project Bush: do you want your pubic region photographed by an ad agency?

Jane Martinson: Mother says it wants to raise awareness about the pressure to wax by inviting women to 'present their bushes in all their glory'. Would you?