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Body image

June 2024

  • Barry Keoghan and Sabrina Carpenter

    ‘Hot rodent boyfriend’ is the latest trend reframing men’s bodies – why can’t we extend this generosity towards women?

    Rebecca Shaw
  • ‘The skin has a luminous quality that makes it seem very real’ … from Sergio Purtell’s book Moral Minority.

    My best shot
    A bodybuilder pinches his bulging thigh – Sergio Purtell’s best photograph

  • Diverse group of women in lingerie

    Pornography and social media driving rise in labia surgery, Australian report finds

  • When Naissa tells his mother Daniela that he identifies as a trans man she struggles to understand. Through candid personal letters exchanged over three years, Dear Mamma follows Naissa as he stands firmly for his independence and identity, and Daniela as she wrestles with her fear of losing a child. As Naissa embarks on his professional dance career and proudly embodies his gender, his mother also embarks on a journey of understanding and acceptance of her son’s choices

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    The Guardian documentary
    Dear Mamma: a transgender man, his mother and their journey in letters

  • The Guardian documentary
    Dear Mamma: a journey of acceptance for a mother and transgender son

  • The long read
    ‘Natty or not?’: how steroids got big

  • Ask Ugly
    Ask Ugly: the state of the bush – how should I be styling my pubic hair?

  • Rosalie review – intriguing empowerment tale of a 19th century celebrity ‘bearded lady’

  • A moment that changed me
    A moment that changed me: After seven years of hiding my skin, I washed my makeup away in the sea

May 2024

  • Zoe Williams

    Worried about your beach body? Take a lesson from gen Z

    Zoe Williams
    Young women find my generation’s reflexive, internalised fat-shaming weird and ridiculous. So, at 50, Zoe Williams is taking a leaf from their book
  • Becki Jacobson

    Why I quit
    After a lifetime of discomfort, I stopped wearing a bra – and I’ll never wear one again

    Becki Jacobson
    It wasn’t even my decision. But being forced to ditch them after surgery was a revelation. Who cares what people think? says writer and entrepreneur Becki Jacobson

    • ‘Breasts are a serious political problem’: one woman’s quest to reclaim her chest

    • The experts
      Ditch the mirror and celebrate your strengths: therapists on 20 ways to boost your body confidence

    • Speak now: the truth about weddings
      Finding a wedding dress is hard. It’s worse when you’re mid- or plus-size

April 2024

  • Composite illustration of a bride's dress and groom's suit, a wedding cake, a tape measure, weighing scales, and flowers.

    ‘The perceived scrutiny is immense’: how weddings can worsen eating and body image disorders

    From dress shopping to weight-loss pressures, nuptials can open a Pandora’s box of body-image issues. Experts share advice on reducing the risk of new or worsening symptoms

March 2024

  • Sharon Stone, pictured at her new art exhibition in Berlin

    Brief letters
    Stop body-shaming men over penis size

    Letters: Sharon Stone interview | 1930s royal photo manipulation | At snail’s pace | Maternity music | Spending a penny or 40
  • Lara Rodwell

    Why I quit
    How I stopped comparing my appearance to my identical twin’s – and healed our relationship

    Lara Rodwell
    Comments about our differences used to wound me. But then I was forced to confront my decades-long resentment, says writer Lara Rodwell

    • Fat-shaming Keir Starmer was wrong, but we all judge people by their appearance

      Sonia Sodha

    • I feel for Keir Starmer. I too have suffered the sting of fat-shaming

      Adrian Chiles

    • Arnie, Dolph and me: Musclebound, the show working out pleasure, pain and bodybuilding

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