Madonna’s perfection cream and why mommy wears makeup…we’ve been thinking a lot about this at Femamom. I’ve confessed to loving makeup and to feeling conflicted about the message that has given my daughter, my son and yes, people I see outside when I’m wearing a thick layer of blue eyeliner to the gym [...]
March 28, 2012
Yesterday Hayley wrote about the mother with the eating disorder who got a book deal to write about her daughter’s chubbiness…Last week Andrea wrote about her mother’s pig fridge magnet and how said pig’s location, top of fridge, out of site, or smack dab in the middle of the fridge, affected her mother’s mood. A dieting mother was not a chipper [...]
March 27, 2012
There is not a worse feeling than having your parent humiliate you in public. Me, it was my Nana, whom I adored, screaming my name across a clothing store. Like a banshee: “Hayleyyy! Come and look at this pink shirt!” Now, replace that with: “You can not absolutely not have three pieces of cake because [...]
March 23, 2012
Guest Post by, Andrea Chisholm I grew up with a guardian over my refrigerator door. A picture of a mud covered snorting pig with the caption, “ A moment on your lips, forever on your hips.” For years the pig made me laugh. She was so cute and seemed so happy and playful I don’t think [...]
March 22, 2012
UPDATE #2: According to Jezebel, Pinterest banned self-harm boards–i.e., that means you Thinspo boards. UPDATE: For anyone confused about why I chose a photo of a girl who looks “healthy thin” as opposed to a girl who is “anorexic thin”–I personally didn’t want to encourage pro-ana photos by pointing out a romanticized version of an [...]
March 13, 2012
My first WW leader, back in the late 1980′s (I was the only high school student there) was named Candy. She had “before” and “after” pictures. “Before” WW she was immense. “After” WW she was deflated with the round face of a person waiting to be filled. I thought she looked pretty before, what did [...]
March 6, 2012
This is a two part series on Beauty. I tell my children they’re beautiful all the time. And they are. To define beauty–especially your children’s beauty–is like asking what color the sky is. Is it blue. Of course. Are my children beautiful? Of course. But beauty, according to brain study, is more than just about [...]
February 17, 2012
Kate Upton, the model above, created herself using social media. She was able to package and market herself from the comfort of her home. Teenagers have the tools to advertise. She put up a sign and the property sold. She’s beautiful, she’s young (nineteen), she’s more naked than not… the airbrushed girl above, is a [...]
February 13, 2012
Madonna was late for our appointment. Her assistant called…Something about a strained hamstring, an injury related to the Super Bowl halftime show. When she arrived I was surprised by how small she was. She’s like the size of a garden fairy- when she apologized for running late, she didn’t have a single wrinkle on her [...]
January 24, 2012
I have one face-to-face experience with boxers. In 1993, I hiked down to the Times Square Boxing Gym on 42nd street for one of my first newspaper assignments. It was an expanse gym–a second floor boxing ring where fighters could be seen sparring from the street. There were no women sparring. Period. The US didn’t [...]
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