In the recent movie Fanney Khan, debutante actor Pihu Sand’s character Lata, struggles to get the world to look beyond her weight and appreciate her musical talent. The jibes and insults she faces are all too familiar. It’s one of the few times Bollywood has not used fat people as comic relief and taken a… Continue reading The one big difference between body-shaming and discussing weight issues
There are many things that new mums have to go through — taking care of a helpless human being is not easy. And it gets tougher when you’re a celebrity. Because you’re somehow expected to magically go back to looking the way you used to. Within, like, a week. Unfortunately, social media doesn’t spare you even if… Continue reading Aishwarya Rai Bachchan reveals how she handled body-shaming after pregnancy
Emelia Holden, 21, is a force to be reckoned with. Holden was doing her job as a server at a pizzeria called Vinnie Van Go-Go’s in Savannah, Georgia where she was recently groped by a customer/ pervert named Ryan Cherwinski. But Holden retaliated, and the restaurant’s surveillance camera caught the moment she took him down.… Continue reading Today’s hero: Emelia Holden who body-slammed a pervert who groped her
As a mother of two girls, leading star of Wonder Woman, and Miss Israel 2004, we have a feeling actress Gal Gadot knows a thing or two when it comes to womanhood. However, from the sounds of the 32-year-old’s recent interview with magazine, nabbing her superhero role as the DC comic character was a pretty… Continue reading Gal Gadot opens up on ‘Wonder Woman’ body shaming and what it means to be a feminist
“Nobody loves a fat wife.” “Stop going out in the sun; you just keep getting darker.” “Why won’t you just go wax off all that body hair?” These weren’t the entries in an angsty teen’s diary that would soon be converted into a Meg Cabot bestseller; rather, real women on the worst thing a loved… Continue reading Watch: 5 women get very, very real about facing body shaming at home
How old were you when you were first made conscious of your body’s flaws? When you were first told that you didn’t measure up to an arbitrary standard of perfection? Okay, I’ll go first. I was 13, scrawny to the bone and learning fast that it was a “problem”. Teenage kids can be harsh, and… Continue reading Does body-shaming begin at home?
