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30 Mar

Fat Girl is the web platform aimed toward tackling

Fat Girl is the web platform aimed toward tackling
Meet Clementine Prendergast, the brains behind the hands-on platform using chatbots and workshops to combat body image issues and construct up young girls digital resilience At only 25, Londoner Clementine Prendergast is on the forefront of a neoteric body neutrality movement, crusading for self-acceptance, body confidence and positive self-esteem amidst a negative body image climate. Last 12 months, Prendergast arrange her Fat Girl initiative – a web based platform which explores body politics with the aim of helping girls who struggle with eating disorders and body image issues. “Having struggled with an eating disorder for the perfect a part of a decade, I wanted to search out a solution to leverage learnings from my negative...
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11 Mar

We Tried It: That Time I Used CoolSculpting To

We Tried It: That Time I Used CoolSculpting To
Getty Images 5504547414001 They are saying summer bodies are made within the winter — but sometimes (er, more often than not) that doesn’t occur and bathing suit season sneaks up on us like a thief within the night. Beauty editors aren’t proof against this epic pursuit being summertime superb, which is why we’ve decided to call in some backup from the professionals to assist us get there. Luckily for you we’ve captured a all of it on camera in our new video series called “We Tried It” where we — the editors from ESSENCE, Instyle and People Style — test out all probably the most buzzed about beauty treatments and products. In the primary episode, “Summer Beauty Treatments,” ESSENCE’s Fashion and Beauty Director Julee...
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1 Feb

Being called fat shouldn’t be any different than calling

Being called fat shouldn’t be any different than calling
Icelandic model and body image activist Isold Halldorudotti desires to reclaim the word ‘fat’ as a positive word Born in Iceland, at a time well before people were willing to #effyourbeautystandards, Isold Halldorudottir never felt like she slot in. “A giant a part of that was because I used to be fat,” she says. As a child, the model and activist was at all times taught that being fat was something to be ashamed of. “In the event you weren’t skinny you were screwed. It’s at all times been something that individuals have been afraid of. We'd do anything to not be fat, and until only recently, perhaps two or three years ago...
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23 Jan

The Fat Zine shines a light-weight on love and

The Fat Zine shines a light-weight on love and
“I met God they usually’re fat too,” reads the back cover of the second issue of The Fat Zine, Gina Tonic and Chloe Sheppard’s radical, fat-positive publication. Launched last 12 months, The Fat Zine celebrates the lives, bodies, and experiences of fat people, putting them front and centre in a way that continues to be remiss in mainstream media. Following the inaugural issue last September, issue two has now dropped – this time, with an exploration of all of the nuances and facets of affection.  A really deliberate alternative, the theme of affection is an antidote to the ‘self-isolation’ motif that ran through the primary issue and explored not only the loneliness we’ve all experienced over lockdown but in addition, Tonic...
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