“Good for her. It’s not a competition. Her body has no effect on mine.” I stream this mental playlist over and over when I’m in the weight room staring at another woman’s muscles, or walking down the ...

How many times have you gotten on the scales either at home, at the health club or in the doctor’s office? What are the first thoughts that come through your head when you are about to get on the ...

The media world is making slow progress on the road to body diversity, inching its way towards including different body types, representing a range of sizes, and easing back on Photoshopping. And that ...

Your feed refreshes, and bodies slide past like glossy shop windows. Abs, angles, filters. Your brain does quick maths: compare, rank, shrink. You know it’s curated, still it lands like a soft punch.

A new study analysing almost 9,400 responses has discovered large variations in how pregnancy can affect women's perceptions of their body. The research is believed to be the first meta-analysis ...

We all compare ourselves to others. It’s a default of human nature. We do this because sometimes it’s helpful since it provides us with a yardstick for measuring our progress towards goals. Let’s ...

A new study has discovered large variations in how pregnancy can affect women’s perceptions of their own body, including experiences of negative body image. Negative body image during pregnancy is ...