body positivity
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Not Like This: We Love Lizzo’s Boldness—but Girl, Please Don’t Put Your Bare Backside on a Stadium Seat!
Oh, Lizzo…how we love thee. We felt good as hell when you got your first feature in Playboy; we bounced along when you dropped the “Tempo” with Missy Elliott this summer, and we praised your first cosmetics campaign. Just last month, we damn near passed out when you gorgeously graced the cover of British Vogue,…
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Lizzo on the Cover of British Vogue May Be the Only Gift We Need This Holiday Season
Lizzo knows what it’s like not to see yourself represented—in fashion, on TV, in films. She also knows that when you’re not deemed worthy enough to be represented (or even marginally included), loving yourself is often an uphill battle. “I would watch things on television and I would look at magazines and I would not…
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'We Still Doing This?' The Online Abuse of Rapper and Calvin Klein Model Chika Proves We Have Intimacy Issues
No, she’s not your average girl in an intimate apparel campaign —and thank God, since last time I checked, most of us—of all sizes and shapes—buy and wear underwear. But Montgomery, Ala.-born, Nigerian-American rapper-on-the-rise Chika—who first rose to fame last year with a “Jesus Walks”-backed freestyle calling out Kanye’s MAGA metamorphosis—has already been proven a…
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Ahead of the Curve: What Every Lingerie Brand Can Learn From Rihanna's Vision for Savage x Fenty
“I’m looking for unique characteristics in people that aren’t usually highlighted in the world of fashion, as it pertains to lingerie and ‘sexy’…what society sees [as] sexy,” says Rihanna within the first minute of her Savage x Fenty Show mini-doc, now streaming on Amazon’s Prime Video. Aside from simply showing the multimedia, music and dance-heavy…
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Kracking Down on the Kardashians: Instagram Implements New Restrictions on Influencer Marketing
Instagram is entering a new era—hopefully, one that’ll be healthier for the self-images of users under 18. Buzzfeed News reports that on Wednesday, the social media platform announced a new policy intended to restrict “content that promotes weight loss products or cosmetic procedures” to underage users. As Buzzfeed reports: The policy is being led by…
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Post-VMAs, Rihanna and Lizzo’s Girl Crush Continues (So, We Gonna Get a Duet or Nah?)
When Lizzo managed to recruit her idol, Missy Elliott, to join her for a remix and video of her hit single “Tempo,” we thought we’d reached peak collaborative nirvana (at least, for the summer of 2019). But now, the “Truth Hurts” singer is engaged in another mutual admiration society that has us musing about what…
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No Bra? Not Your Business: Singer Tanerélle Claps Back at Breast-Shamers
Singer-songwriter Tanerélle would like you to know that her breasts—and how they hang—are none of your business, thankyouverymuch. The musical artist joined fellow entertainers on the BET Awards blue carpet on Sunday, wearing a block-printed, open-backed, low-cut dress by Batani Khalfani that displayed her cleavage with no assistance from underwires or artificial lifting. It was…
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Beauty, According to BanX: Tyra Banks to Produce a Docuseries on Modern Beauty
A comeback Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover, a Life-Size reboot, and an amusement park called Modelland, oh, my! Tyra Banks has seemingly been in “can’t stop, won’t stop” mode during the past year or so (did we mention she published her third book last April?), with no sign of stopping anytime soon. According to People, the…
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Oh, Polly! Fashion Brand Apologizes for ‘Segregating’ Plus-Size and Black and Brown Models
Fashion brand Oh Polly is saying “So sorry” after it was forced to issue apologies when social media users pointed out its placement of plus-size and black and brown models on an Instagram account separate from that of its “main” line. As the BBC reports, folks on social media called out the brand, with people…