Just The Way We Are
Girl Body Pride is coming up on a birthday. To celebrate, we are taking a moment to showcase our favorite submissions from guest writers and contributions from our regular team. Do you have a favorite you’d like to see here? Send me an email at . Lissa’s essay, Body After Baby? Bullshit! was written for […]
Disclaimer: I’m not on Kim Kardashian’s radar. I’m not even a blip in her world. I’m also not a fan of reality T.V., think that Honey-Boo-Boo is a good idea on any level, or appreciate what Snookie did to my brain when I tried reading her book (Hey, I was curious.) Nor do I […]
I was prepared to rant. Jessica Simpson debuted her “new mom body” on the Katie Show and my emotions told reason to take a coffee and doughnut break while I raked Simpson (who gave birth in May) through the coals for selling out and giving me an even bigger complex about the size of my […]
Are you a mother who birthed a baby from her uterus? Did you gain weight, change shape, slow down? Does it make you feel bad? Look around you. Who are your mom friends? Are they awesome? Do you love them? Are they saving your life now that you are a new mother with an infant […]
I understand why people responded to it and why it has the number of likes that it does. Our stretch marks and lose skin and dimples may not have been there twenty years ago, but they are part of who we are now and, therefore, they are beautiful. We earned them. We are Women, […]
Both of my grandmothers—and I hope they’d forgive me for saying this—were on the rotund size. Maybe it was the fact that they both liked to cook. Homemade noodles on one side, meals that began with a pasta course and moved on to a meat course on the other. It was something that I grew […]
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