Want to make a style statement while pregnant? Look to Ali Wong
Bog off floaty Sloaney dresses – the standup comedian proves you can wear bump-clinging Lycra during pregnancy, and make subversive gags about BDSM
‘I have three seconds before she draws blood’: life with extreme eczema
Novelist Maggie O’Farrell’s daughter was born with eczema so severe her skin peeled off in strips. Would they ever find a cure?
Expecting by Chitra Ramaswamy review – the strangeness of the pregnant body
This beautifully rendered account by a gay woman updates the standard narrative of pregnancy and lifts it to another sphere, full of poetic language and references from Voltaire to Almodóvar
Lose Weight for Love review – 10 weeks apart to shed some pounds
Professor Tanya Byron has to battle Becky and Phil’s insecurities, but fortunately family help is on hand. Plus, life-affirming footage of craftsmen at work in Handmade on the Silk Road
Metamorphosis: How and Why We Change by Polly Morland – review
Most of us are wary of change, but it can be the making of us, according to this persuasive study
Clive James: ‘I can’t mock Donatella Versace, because I am no stranger to the plastic surgeon myself’
There is the disturbing consideration that, with proper planning, I could have been turning myself into someone better looking
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West – ‘I never wanted internet trolls to be my beat’
West’s memoir is full of a wild, joyous vulgarity and ranges from body images and rape threats to puberty and her love for her husband
Sally Brampton obituary
Women’s magazine editor and author whose memoir Shoot the Damn Dog recounted her experience of depression
Go ahead, touch yourself: eight things to know for masturbation month
Adults who are 25-29 years old are the most likely to have masturbated at least once in their lives – but those numbers do not necessarily tell the whole story
Dietland by Sarai Walker review – fat is still a feminist issue
A bold debut about female self-loathing and the representation of women in the media