Body Acceptance on Shine

Yoga Can Help You Manage Weight, Study Says

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Regular yoga practice is associated with mindful eating, and people who eat mindfully are less likely to be obese, according to a recent study led by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. The study, which was a follow-up on an earlier study that revealed middle-age gained less…

Can Yoga Help You Get Rid of Love Handles?

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Many beginning yoga students are drawn to yoga because they've heard it does wonders for a person's physique. Even though most serious practitioners eventually abandon their goals of changing flab to fab in favor of a more holistic approach to health, there's nothing wrong with targeting…

Love Your Body (Even in Swimsuit Season)

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Millions of Americans—most of them women—struggle each day with feelings of shame and inadequacy about their physical selves. In fact, studies have shown that the majority of American women don't like what they see in the mirror. (And obsessing about how you're going to look at the beach…

Setting the Jessica Simpson record straight

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Last night I was interviewed by Access Hollywood about Jessica Simpson. Yes, we would love to have her for the cover and were in discussions about shooting her, but she couldn't find the time and we decided it was best to wait till her schedule abated and we could do it right, in a sunny, beautiful place, with her feeling relaxed and happy.

Kate Winslet: Still a body image hero

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I'll bet you didn't need yet another reason to absolutely love Kate Winslet, but she's scored yet another win for body acceptance. You'll of course remember that she blasted GQ for airbrushing away most of her BMI, and she also had extremely non-sexy washbasin sex with Patrick Wilson in a way that was somewhat unflattering. While filming her latest, The Reader, she considered whether to bare or not to bare. The directors offered her a body double for the naked scenes, but she refused:

Do men expect women to have perfect bodies? Do we expect them, too?

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Not to quote Jewel or anything, but "If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be that we're all okay." I was out with a friend earlier this week when she said, "I feel like I'm too fat to be loved." I shook her fervently (in the emotional sense, not the physical...

Your "aha" moment: When did you first realize that beauty was not related to size?

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We all remember that moment when we heard a giant "Aha!" in our heads, the moment when we realized how ridiculous it is that society insists that there is only one specific type of beauty and it applies to about 4 percent of the women on the planet. Maybe it was when you were looking at...

Finding peace in your birthday suit

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I am not a fan of nakedness as a state. Oh, sure, the kind of nakedness involving two people, usually naked touching naked? That's fun. But the kind of nakedness that takes place in a well-lit space, filled with women who have perfect, tiny, little Bratz doll bodies, the kind of nakedness...

Sex and the fatty

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After standing in a line that stretched around a city block, a few girlfriends and I were finally let into the theater to see Sex and the City on opening night in Manhattan. We feared death by trampling. Luckily, we made it in alive and settled into a row where just a few seats down from us a couple...

Dr. Daphne Miller, author of The Jungle Effect

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Kim gets on her soapbox to talk about the importance
of body acceptance before getting on the yellow phone to call up Dr. Daphne Miller, author of The Jungle Effect.

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