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Model Treat: Marloes Horst for Next SS 2013 (Gallery)
Body Image Story: Stella Boonshoft
Rihanna’s All Black Crop Top Look

Model Treat: Marloes Horst for Next SS 2013 (Gallery)

Posted: 26 Dec 2012 08:41 AM PST

Model Treat of the Day: new girl (on our site) Marloes Horst in lots of promotional pictures for Next SS 2013 collection!

Age: 23

Nationality: Dutch

Height: 5’8.5″ / 174cm

Size: US4

Enjoy the shots in the gallery and share your thoughts!

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Body Image Story: Stella Boonshoft

Posted: 26 Dec 2012 08:38 AM PST

Body Image Story: Stella Boonshoft | beauty body image

At high request, here’s a story that fits perfectly in our Beauty and Body Image category that you might find interesting – all the details from People Magazine:

A New York college student who started a blog on self-acceptance in order to help other young women deal with body image taunts has become a viral hero to many for her frank and powerful online discussion about her weight. Stella Boonshoft, who writes The Body Love Blog and who has polycystic ovarian syndrome, put her curves on full view when she posted a bikini photo on her Tumblr site.

“My body must be a revolution,” she wrote along with the photo, which she captioned, “Picture might be considered obscene because subject is not thin. And we all know that only skinny people can show their stomachs and celebrate themselves. I am not going to stand for that. This is my body, not yours. MINE.”

“I think people are cruel because they are uncomfortable seeing an image of people who are not thin,” Boonshoft said in an interview on Tuesday’s Today show. “I found that after years of struggling with my body image that really there was no way to justify the bullying as a child and as a teen.”

And her cause became a cyberspace hit with more than 2.4 million views on Facebook. In addition, more than 80,000 people shared her photo from her Tumblr page. But she got even more exposure thanks to Brandon Stanton, who appeared with Boonshoft on Today. He created the Humans of New York project, a collection of street portraits in the city, and he initially took his own photo of Boonshoft fully clothed but later made a decision to use Boonshoft’s own bikini shot, which she says mortified her – at first.

After a while, she decided it was the right choice as she continued to work on her project on sizeism.

“It took a lot of years of soul searching to decide this isn’t right,” she said on Today. “I finally came to a place where I was really happy with the way that I looked. I wanted to leave a message to the bullies who tormented me.”

What do you think about Stella’s message?

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Rihanna’s All Black Crop Top Look

Posted: 26 Dec 2012 08:12 AM PST

Rihannas All Black Crop Top Look | rihanna

Rihanna was spotted as she walked hand in hand with Chris Brown upon leaving the Los Angeles Lakers basketball game at Staples Center on Christmas day in Los Angeles. And on this occasion, Rihanna rocked an all black outfit that showed off her slim figure and tummy.

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