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Body diversity returns to London fashion week as wider industry heads ultra-thin
Body diversity has made a comeback at London fashion week despite a wider shift towards ultra-thinness in the fashion industry.Emerging...
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‘Australia’s beach culture is very fatphobic’: the summertime rise in body dissatisfaction
Bella Davis has struggled with body dissatisfaction since she was eight years old. “I grew up thinking having a soft...
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‘I was told I wouldn’t walk again. I proved the doctors wrong’: the bike-obsessed pensioner who broke his neck and started afresh
Before the accident, Harold Price, 82, loved being on two wheels. A retired engineer from Griffithstown in Wales, he cycled...
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‘I was bullied in school for being different. At 16, I hit a crashing point’: the awkward kid who became the world’s strongest man
Tom Stoltman was a skinny kid: 90kg, 6ft 8in, with glasses and sticking‑out teeth. Diagnosed with autism as a young...
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‘It felt amazing to be on the start line again’: the rugby pro who became paralysed – and is aiming for the Paralympic Games
From the age of 16, Taylor Gough’s body was a finely tuned machine. A professional rugby player who came up...
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‘I looked exceptional but I was out of breath’: the bodybuilder who switched to mindful movement
Eugene Teo, 34, began lifting weights at the age of 13, looking for validation. “I was short, skinny and I...
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‘Without strength training I wouldn’t survive’: the woman who joined a CrossFit gym in her 80s
I see people 30 years younger than me and they’ve given up,” Jean Stewart, 96, says. It’s not an attitude...
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‘It took time to love my soft, larger shape’: the body-positive writer who recovered from an eating disorder
Megan Jayne Crabbe’s transformation goes beyond the physical. “My ‘before’ was trying to make myself as small as possible in...
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Doomscrolling, people pleasing and low-fat foods? Life’s too short! Nine writers on what they won’t bother with this year
Life’s to short to … use a smartphoneRutger Bregman, authorView image in fullscreenFor years, I told myself I could manage...
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K. Michelle Opens Up About the Toll of Cosmetic Surgery
- Advertisement -K. Michelle has been through more than most people know. Her voice has taken her from R&B to...
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