body positivity
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Worship Her: Lizzo Makes Her Playboy Debut
She’s kind of a big deal, y’all. We’ve been singing the praises of Lizzo since we launched The Glow Up—even earlier this month, in fact. But now it seems the multi-hyphenate entertainer’s fandom is finally reaching critical mass as she continues to break down barriers. This week’s barriers? Joining the likes of Jorja Smith, Travis…
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'If You Can Love Me, You Can Love Yourself': Lizzo Won't Shrink to Fit—and Says You Shouldn't, Either
She’s got a big personality, even bigger talent, and has never shied away from being a big girl in an industry that often prioritizes thin women with equally thin voices. But the rapper-flutist-singer-songwriter-bold and bodied badass-beauty icon Lizzo is finally beginning to get the recognition she deserves; this month as the star of Allure’s first…
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PSA of the Day: Stop Asking Women If They’re Pregnant (Because Sometimes, It’s Just a Food Baby)
You know what’s really dope? When you’re out here, living your best new-monied life, getting your step-and-repeat and twirl on in a Michael Kors gown (that you could easily pay for, but were instead loaned) on a Golden Globes afterparty red carpet where you’re nobody’s plus-one. The paparazzi knows your name and is screaming it…
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She Doesn't Have the Range: How Victoria's Secret Became Its Own Worst Enemy
We’re not sure there’s a more delicate way to put this, but the world’s best known lingerie brand has really been showing its ass lately, all in an attempt to continue restricting the talent in its annual lingerie show—the largest in the world—to exclusively straight-sized, able-bodied, cis models. While we’ve applauded the label in the…
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Fashion for All: Old Navy Is Moving Plus Sizes Back Into Its Stores
Fun fact: I am a longtime devotee of Old Navy jeans. Aside from the obviously stellar price-\ point (I’ve rarely if ever bought a pair for more than $35, thanks in large part to Old Navy’s equally stellar sales), they are one of the few brands to produce fits that consistently and accurately accommodate my…
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Queen of Soul and Body-Positive Icon: A Look Back at Aretha's Franklin's Memorable Style
The icon we knew as Aretha Franklin was a lot of things: musical prodigy, Queen of Soul, church girl, teenage mother (and possible abuse/rape survivor), Detroit native, shade-master and legendary diva. But while all of those titles may apply, there is one we often overlook: Aretha Franklin, in her own, over-the-top way, was a body-positive…
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'I Really Stepped Into Myself': Lena Waithe Says Cutting Her Hair Liberated Her from Gender Norms
Lena Waithe doesn’t owe anyone an explanation for who she is, how she loves or why she cut her famous locs last month; but the writer, actress and producer graciously gave one to Vanity Fair’s cameras while on the red carpet for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Grants Banquet on Thursday night. After joking that…
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Aja Naomi King Gets Powerful for the Cover of Shape's September Issue
“All the things I’m involved in now are about women standing up for themselves,” How to Get Away with Murder’s Aja Naomi King tells Shape magazine as its September issue cover girl. Joining an unprecedented number of black women (and Kanye and kids) covering 2018’s fall fashion issues, King, also an ambassador for L’Oréal Paris,…
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Orange Is the New Nude: Dascha Polanco Is a Study In Self-Love In September's Women's Health
Dascha Polanco isn’t the first person who comes to mind when we think “body issues”—after all, this is a woman who once went pants-free to New York Fashion Week. But in a revealing new “as told to” feature in the September issue of Women’s Health, the Orange Is the New Black star shares that she…
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She Ain't Sorry: Beyoncé Gets Revealing and Reflective for Vogue's September Issue
Stop debating who wore the flower crown first—or best—and focus, y’all: Beyoncé just made having a FUPA fashionable. Okay, maybe not fashionable, but entirely normal and acceptable—especially post-baby (or three). It’s just one of many revelations the star makes in Vogue’s September issue, which was famously shot by 23-year-old black photographer Tyler Mitchell—the first in…