I’m feeling kind of down on my body today. I was reading again about Saartjie Baartman, who was also known as the Hottentot Venus. It’s especially depressing for me to read because I am shaped similarly and even though many many years have passed since what she went through it seems to me that the [...]

I think the key to loving your adult female body is understanding that you will never, ever ever have your teenage body back again and to understand that women’s bodies naturally tend to hold fat precisely because we may carry and birth a child. Even if you didn’t physically bear children, your body matures as [...]

For myself and I suspect many other black women, we don’t feel bad looking at thin women because we have heard positive affirmations about our body shape all our lives, from all types of men and from other women. We also have mothers and other female family members who showed little or no dismay at [...]