Recently, 14-year-old Julia Bluhm presented editors at Seventeen Magazine with a petition signed by close to 25,000, requesting that the magazine start publishing just one non-Photoshopped spread per issue. In response, Editor Ann Shoket scheduled a personal meeting with Bluhm, showered her with praise for her efforts, then essentially ignored the part where Bluhm had [...]
“Wow, you look gorgeous!” “Hey, I love that shirt on you.” “Your new haircut looks great.” “Cool car!” These don’t seem like fighting words to me. They seem like the kind of words the average person would love to hear. I say them a lot; to men, to women, to complete strangers if it seems [...]
Forty or 50 years ago, beauty was all natural and we celebrated the little imperfections that made us unique. Things have changed a lot since then, though; the pressure is on for women to conform to just one standard of beauty. According to American Society of Plastic Surgeons, there was a 5% increase in the [...]
She’s known for her fabulous and outrageous sense of style. She’s inspired jewelry lines, books, museum exhibitions and many fashion lines. Iris Apfel has a new career at 90: she is the new face of MAC cosmetics. “Youth is beautiful and wonderful, but there’s lots more,” Apfel said. “Life doesn’t stop when you’re 30.” Watch [...]
Editor’s Note: A post by Alexandra Sifferlin at Time.com’s Healthland reports on a study out of the University of St. Andrews which found an increase in consumption of fruits and vegetables will likely convey noticeable improvements in the apparent healthiness and attractiveness of facial skin. Pass those peaches — a new study finds that eating [...]
Would you trade your current IQ for bigger boobs? Apparently, one-third of women ages 18-25 said they would. A study conducted by a marketing company in the U.K. also reported recently that 41 percent of women this age would choose big boobs over a high IQ. Furthermore, 57 percent of the young women surveyed believed [...]
I’ve been hoping to find a topic to write about for Women.com ever since the site got up and running. I can think of no greater honor than contributing to a site dedicated to celebrating, inspiring and empowering women. In honor of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, I’ve decided to write about eating disorders, a [...]
