My husband called me today to say his afternoon lesson cancelled. “Let’s take the kids to the beach today,” he said on the phone. I excitedly agreed and started gathering beach (and baby) essentials: swim trunks, towels, diapers, bottles, sunscreen and of course MY bathing suit. As I grabbed my bikini from the drawer and […]
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Eating Disorders, Body Image and the Women’s Rights Movement
Twenty years after the Beijing conference on women’s rights and gender equality, we still have work to do.
Feeling Stuck in Your Battle Against an Eating Disorder?
“At some point we made pain a problem to be solved like a math problem. Pain can’t be solved any more than a sunset can be solved.”
Nicole Scherzinger addresses eating disorder on new track Big Fat Lie
The track, which is about her battle with bulimia, helped Scherzinger to ‘create something beautiful from … something that wasn’t once so beautiful’Nicole Scherzinger will use her new album to address her eating disorder. Big Fat Lie takes its title from the singer’s battle with bulimia, helping Scherzinger to “create something beautiful from … something that wasn’t once so beautiful”.“I think we all have our own big fat lies,” Scherzinger explained in an interview with Digital Spy. “[I have been] battling with an eating disorder for many years and recently, in the past few years, it’s come out and people were talking to me about that … [That fight] is a big part of who I am and what has gotten me here. And what has gotten me