body positivity

From Lizzo to Meghan Trainor, music celebrating bigger women has become big business in the era of big people. Perhaps if the 1970s rock band Queen had been led by a woman, particularly a bigger woman, they too would join the hall of fame…

Lindsay Lohan is not buying one of the primary whoppers of feminism: that incubating and having babies is peak female oppression. The actress, perhaps best known for playing both trouble-making twins in “The Parent Trap” remake some 25…

Lizzo might not be the pro-fat heroine her fans have made her out to be. A new lawsuit filed Tuesday accuses the “body-positive” singer of fat-shaming dancers, among a slew of other abuses that plaintiffs say fostered a hostile work…

The feminist icon in Greta Gerwig’s Barbieland possesses all the hallmarks of the quintessential Barbie that led to the doll’s rejection by aggressive activists, to begin with. Blonde hair, busty boobs, and big hips earned the tight-waisted…

After a naked child was apparently allowed to participate alongside nude adults in a so-called “body positivity” bike ride around Madison’s Capitol Square on Saturday, a member of the Dane County Board of Supervisors is calling for a police…

Lizzo threatened to quit her monumental musical career this week, citing online comments critical of her weight. On Wednesday, the celebrity icon of the pro-fat movement locked her Twitter account and published a series of tweets…

New York City Mayor Eric Adams signed a bill Friday declaring obesity a new legally protected class. The legislation signed by the New York mayor bars individuals from being discriminated against for their height and weight for access to…

No one wants to live like Charlie in “The Whale.” No one who genuinely cares about their neighbors should want anybody to live like its character Charlie, an obese English professor who’s resigned himself to the dark four corners of his…

After Victoria’s Secret’s stock price plummeted last week and CEO Amy Hauk announced her departure after just eight months at the lingerie brand, conservative critics were quick to diagnose the company’s failures as a classic case of “go…

Magazines and other major publications used to welcome the new year with challenges for readers to commit to be fit. Now they’re trying to redefine fitness altogether, claiming that conventional health and beauty standards are outdated…