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the New York Times.“Certainly, there’s a lot of passion. My hope for the movie is that it’s an invitation for everybody to be part of the party and let go of the things that aren’t necessarily serving us as either women or men,” said Gerwig.“I hope that in all of that passion, if they see it or engage with it, it can give them some of the relief that it gave other people,” the director said.Gerwig was responding specifically to the interviewer’s question as to whether or not the “Lady Bird” director anticipated “the degree to which rightwing pundits are bashing the movie as being ‘woke’ and burning their Barbies.”Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro flamed the feminist themes in “Barbie” by lighting Barbie dolls and a pink toy car on fire at the start of a 43-minute YouTube review.

Kelly Clarkson has been showing off a noticeably smaller frame on “The Kelly Clarkson Show” — and now the talk show host is revealing how she “dropped weight.”The “American Idol” Season 1 winner revealed in People’s new cover story that relocating to New York City helped with her wellness routine.“Walking in the city is quite the workout. I’m really into infrared saunas right now.

The fashion industry has always been notoriously exclusive and social media has become a massive way for women to push for it to be more representative of everyday women.The last few years have been about seeing more body representation in fashion. There have been loud conversations about brands expanding their size range and the rise of the plus-size influencer.More recently, there’s been a rise in the mid-sized influencer.

Amelia Tait for her newsletter The Waiting Room.“It was so exciting. It was just fun to be part of a movie – there are so few people who actually get to do that.” Paltrow was “really nice” and Black “a delightful person,” and the starlet finally felt noticed for her persona — ironically, the plot line of the film — after fighting “really hard to be seen as a personality and not just my size.”But the film’s seemingly progressive storyline – that the “obese” character wasn’t a “villain,” but rather a “cool,” “popular” girl — instead welcomed an onslaught of body-shamers who zeroed in on Snitzer’s weight.It was then that Snitzer’s taste of the limelight soured.

three of her former tour dancers filed a shocking lawsuit accusing the “About Damn Time” singer — I found the news difficult to believe. Since breaking out big in 2019 with hits such as “Truth Hurts” and “Juice,” the four-time Grammy winner has been all about making us feel good as hell about ourselves. The flautist-turned-pop idol has been the pied piper of self-love and, in particular, body positivity — an artist with a plus-sized heart.Now, Lizzo, her production company Big Grrrl Big Touring Inc.

3-minute clip that counts 1.9 million views since it was posted Wednesday to TikTok.“It’s a huge issue and people need to love themselves — even when hater-trolls tell them they’re ugly and worthless,” the “Jersey Shore: Family Vacation” star told The Post on Thursday. “F–k the weight bullying. People are so f–king rude.”Polizzi, 35, has been targeted by weight watchers since she joined the “Jersey Shore” cast in 2009.

new study found that an overwhelming 82% of the 1,000 multi-generational, female case studies think Barbie dolls — which take center stage in a highly anticipated Margot Robbie movie premiering Friday, July 21 — promote unrealistic body expectations to girls and women.Female dolls have historically featured slender figures with long, straight blond or brunette hair — and shockingly perky bosoms, especially for the 1950s, when they first hit the market.“They didn’t think that the public would accept a doll with breasts for children,” the late Ruth Handler, who invented the figure in 1959 after seeing her daughter play with paper cutouts of adult dolls, once said. “I knew they were wrong,” the co-founder and former president of Mattel, who died at 85 in 2022, bragged of the then-controversial endowment.Fast-forward to 2023: The new research from Harmony Healthcare IT further found that 69% of women think Barbie can actually lead to dangerous body image issues.

took to Instagram Tuesday to showcase her husband Ben’s fitness journey — proudly displaying his slimmed-down appearance. “[Ben] got hardcore about his health and fitness last winter ahead of his big shoulder surgery that was in March so he could sleep better on his back and lower his BP,” Napier, 37, wrote on Instagram.The post, set to the tune of “You Don’t Mess Around with Jim,” by ’70s crooner Jim Croce, shows her hunky hubby, 39, wearing a tan suit with matching loafers and a blue shirt.

flip phones, tramp stamps, low-rise denim and an unfortunate case of body shaming.Back then, Kate Moss chic was in — if you weren’t sickly thin, you were considered egregiously plus size, even if you were barely midsize — and millennials will never forget how the body standard scrutiny maimed their formative years.On Twitter, users have dug deep into their pop culture psyche to regurgitate the regrettable remarks about celebrities made by commentators and media alike, rebuking mainstream fatphobia.“If gen-z wants to understand millennials they first need to understand that for the entirety of 2008 we were told that this was the most disgusting a person could EVER look,” tweeted Caroline Moss alongside a photo of Jessica Simpson in 2009.At the time, Simpson was crucified as “Jumbo Jessica” for her curvier appearance.

teenage hypersexualization in the media.“The Great” star, 25, got candid during the Hollywood Reporter’s Comedy Actress Roundtable interview recently, recalling how she lost out on a role because she wasn’t sexually attractive enough to casting directors when she was just 16 years old — for a “father-daughter road trip comedy,” no less.Fanning explained how her team had to “filter” explicit comments that people had said of her audition. “I was 16 years old, and a person said, ‘Oh, she didn’t get the father-daughter road trip comedy because she’s unf – – kable.'”“It [was] so disgusting.

plastic surgery to look like the “Queen of Rap.”“I just remember seeing old pictures of myself and not being happy with how I looked,” Rudy Villalobos, 27, told Jam Press.Villalobos started his plastic journey in 2020 and has no plans to stop until he achieves the perfect “Barbz” look.“I want to be a real-life doll with a very sexy body and a very juicy, big bubble butt,” Villalobos said.His infatuation with changing his appearance stems from playing with Barbie dolls as a child, saying it motivated him to be whoever he wanted.And Minaj is his perfect version of Barbie. “[She] definitely inspired me,” he said.

become wildly popular in recent years. It has ranked among the top 10 most streamed series in the US according to recent Nielsen ratings and even got a balloon in New York City’s Thanksgiving Day parade.A recent episode of the show was reportedly edited by its creators at Brisbane, Australia-based Ludo Studios after some accused one episode of ‘fat-shaming.’“The latest instalment [sic] of Bluey, which was broadcast on ABC in Australia, showed the title character’s parents complaining about their weight,” BBC’s Nichola Rutherford wrote.

on the video, which scored 5.3 million views since it was posted last month.A TikToker known as Robin Reaction also shared a clip last year making a similar argument. The creator claims that some of the earliest princesses barely had a nose at all, at least when the animated beauties were viewed head-on.

growing out her underarm hair.“It’s my body, it’s my choice,” Margolies, 42, a yoga teacher and mother of two from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, told The Post. “I stopped shaving because I couldn’t come up with a good reason for why I was doing it in the first place.”As a native of Bogotá, Colombia, Margolies — who moved to New York in 1999 — began shaving her underarms, eyebrows and legs at age 12, in accordance with cultural norms, which equated a hair-free body with femininity. But she never liked the pressure she felt around grooming.   “Women are taught that it’s not okay to have body hair,” she said.

“Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard” podcast where she explained why she really decided to leave, while also addressing “toxic” set accusations and her much-rumored feud with show runner Sam Levinson.The Queens native portrayed Kat Hernandez on the teen drama and noted that she was tired of playing into “fat best friend” stereotypes. She added that it was a “mutual decision” for her to leave the series before Season 3, explaining that Kat’s character arc had run its course.“I don’t think there was a place for her to go,” Ferreira said.

she’s been treated her entire life — starting from when she was a child. “I was reprimanded twice at 2 different offices for dressing ‘inappropriately,’ “Nina Osegueda, 38, captioned her now-viral TikTok. “It’s just my shape.”In the clip — which has been viewed more than 5.5 million times — the Washington, DC, resident said it doesn’t matter how she’s dressed because it’s always deemed “inappropriate” due to her curves.“I learned that no matter how appropriately I’m dressed, my body is so distracting that I will never be dressed appropriately enough for the workplace,” she explained.#stitch with @clayyedward i was reprimanded twice at 2 different pffices for dressing “inappropriately”.

[Warning: Spoilers below.]This cycle-logical marvel, posted to Reddit last week, shows a dirty bike sitting in the mud on its back tire with no front tire anywhere in sight — as if it’s popping a phantom wheelie. It initially seems like the bicycle’s front tire was taken off for repairs.

a study conducted by Toronto’s York University discovered that “slim-thick” imagery online causes more body dissatisfaction amongst young women.The study actually named the Kardashian mogul and her sister Kylie Jenner as influencers who contribute to the discontent women feel about their bodies because of their online content.The “slim-thick” body ideal — defined by the researchers as “a curvier or more full-body type, characterized by a small waist and flat stomach but large butt, breasts and thighs” — has become more idolized in mainstream media in recent years.“The hashtags #thick, #thicc and #slimthick have 6.2 million, 3.4 million, and 1 million posts on Instagram respectively, and the hashtag #slimthicc has 134 million tags on TikTok,” the researchers said of 2021 social trends.While a thin, Kate Moss-esque frame might have been ideal in years prior, that trend is out and the Kim K’s of the world are in.But those curves aren’t all they’re cracked up to be.The family of influencers is regularly outed for egregious photoshop fails, including this week when Kim’s leg fell victim to some heavy-handed editing, prompting its removal from her Instagram.It’s become routine to digitally alter photos, the York University study said, “thus making the thin ideal even thinner and less attainable for the average woman.”While it’s not illegal to alter a photo or get plastic surgery, of course, body acceptance influencer Mik Zazon, 26, told The Post it’s “manipulating authenticity” by not being transparent about it.A post shared by Mik Zazon (@mikzazon)The Ohio-based content creator, who has over one million followers said one example is when Kim shared her psoriasis outbreak on her face in a selfie posted to Instagram, which made

he captioned the snap, which he shared with his 52.7 million followers.Commenters flooded the post with support.“You’re Will Smith!! You can be in whatever shape you want,” British singer-songwriter Sonna Rele wrote.“You’re a real one for this,” YouTuber Casey Neistat wrote.“This is the most amazing post in the history of social media,” musician Questlove wrote.“Man! You have been in shape your whole life,” actor Guillermo Garcia wrote.

unedited bikini photo flap that her family said was accidentally posted without permission.“Hey guys, this is me and my body unretouched and unfiltered,” Kardashian posted along with a video of herself wearing nothing but a bikini bottom while jumping and holding her breasts.“The photo that was posted this week is beautiful.

according to a sexy new survey of 2,000 people by Dating.com.Dad bods — think paunchy and pec-less — usually refer to dudes, but the researchers didn’t differentiate between genders, opting instead for a “singles” designation.