Body of Lies By Deenie Hartzog-Mislock Feature Deenie Hartzog-Mislock confronts a lifetime of body image trauma when her marriage turns south and sexless.
Running Dysmorphic By Devin Kelly Feature On competitive running, exactness, and finding permission to be myself.
What’s Happening to My Body? By Devorah Heitner Feature Devorah Heitner reflects on the ways she is reclaiming her relationship to her own body while grappling with the legacy of her mother’s poor body image and early death.
Whole 60 By Laura Lippman Feature The Laura Lippman plan requires that you eat whatever you want whenever you want to eat it, and declare yourself beautiful. We’re not going to lie — it’s really hard.
School for Girls By Jasmin Aviva Sandelson Feature Years after recovering from anorexia, Jasmin Sandelson writes a letter to the high school friend she idolized, and explores how hunger, love, and envy shaped — and ended — their relationship.
No Surgery Can Fix a Self-Defeating World View By Krista Stevens Highlight Brick had gotten a new jaw, nose, and cheekbones from a surgeon in California, costing him around $30,000, and still he was furious at women and the world.
The Reappearing Act By Audrey Olivero Feature In the aftermath of an eating disorder, Audrey Olivero builds a new relationship with her body — through knife-throwing.
The Wrong Pair By Lisa Williamson Rosenberg Feature After decades of shame, discrimination in the ballet world, and some serious back pain, Lisa W. Rosenberg concludes it’s time to down-size her double-E knockers.
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