Being able to touch and be touched affectionately can positively impact our body image and self-esteem.

Being comfortable with one's body is to accept it through all transformations, wanted and unwanted.

Historically, men have not been targets of corrective beauty treatments. Now, they are just like everyone else.

Self-loathing behaviors may cause us to stop taking care of ourselves, opening us up to physical health problems.

"I think it began as being revolutionary back in the 1960s and 70s, but I feel disillusioned by its co-option by corporates and influencers today."

"For the first time, I trusted my body."

Studies show people with obesity can be metabolically healthy.

Proposed as a disorder in 1997, orthorexia nervosa may lead to consequences like anxiety and malnutrition.

Study shows increased progesterone levels exacerbate body image issues right before menstruation.

As body ideals have changed, the extremes we take to achieve them haven't.

“For the longest time, I allowed and believe[d] that my hair was my worth.”

All lives matter, reverse sexism, thin phobia are all examples of arguments majority groups use to preserve power.

Cancer and its treatment affect all of the physical traits society tells us to value most.

Hormones and social norms affect women's post-pregnancy weight loss.

A slowly burgeoning body positivity movement in India shies away from tackling body hair.

Real people are the most interesting thing on social media.

As puberty skews earlier, body self-consciousness is also starting earlier.

Social media distortions are having a real impact on body image.