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Body image

September 2024

  • A red YouTube sign and logo at a trade show, shot at a creative angle

    YouTube to restrict teenagers’ exposure to videos about weight and fitness

  • The Every Body Outdoors group shot of nine women in the Peak District

    ‘Plus-size people face a lot of barriers’: the campaigners helping larger walkers to enjoy the great outdoors

August 2024

  • man trims his chest with an electric trimmer

    Hair-raising tales of manly pursuits

  • Illustration of a man's bare legs standing on the floor with a little pile of hair clippings in between

    ‘They handled me like a carcass!’: why are so many men now ‘manscaping’?

  • Group of women in colourful carnival outfits

    ‘Everybody is celebrated’: Notting Hill carnival’s push for plus-size positivity

  • illustration of woman shouting at toes

    Ask Ugly
    Ask Ugly: I hate my big, ugly feet. How can I come to terms with them?

  • Women – don’t get larger, don’t get older, don’t have fun, don’t dare to wear a bikini

    Barbara Ellen

  • Sali Hughes on beauty
    Bumpy arms begone! My favourite exfoliating lotions for all skin types

July 2024

  • Michelle Shaughnessy dressed as a dancer

    ‘It was the first time I wasn’t obsessed with food’: comedians mine Ozempic trend for laughs at Edinburgh fringe

  • Illustration: Calum Heath

    The Audio Long Read
    ‘Natty or not?’: how steroids got big – podcast

June 2024

  • Barry Keoghan and Sabrina Carpenter

    ‘Hot rodent boyfriend’ is the latest trend reframing men’s looks – why can’t we extend this generosity towards women?

    Rebecca Shaw
  • ‘The skin has a luminous quality that makes it seem very real’ … from Sergio Purtell’s book Moral Minority.

    My best shot
    A bodybuilder pinches his bulging thigh – Sergio Purtell’s best photograph

  • Diverse group of women in lingerie

    Pornography and social media driving rise in labia surgery, Australian report finds

  • When Naissa tells his mother Daniela that he identifies as a trans man she struggles to understand. Through candid personal letters exchanged over three years, Dear Mamma follows Naissa as he stands firmly for his independence and identity, and Daniela as she wrestles with her fear of losing a child. As Naissa embarks on his professional dance career and proudly embodies his gender, his mother also embarks on a journey of understanding and acceptance of her son’s choices

    24:18

    The Guardian documentary
    Dear Mamma: a transgender man, his mother and their journey in letters

  • The Guardian documentary
    Dear Mamma: a journey of acceptance for a mother and transgender son

  • The long read
    ‘Natty or not?’: how steroids got big

  • Ask Ugly
    Ask Ugly: the state of the bush – how should I be styling my pubic hair?

  • Rosalie review – intriguing empowerment tale of a 19th century celebrity ‘bearded lady’

  • A moment that changed me
    A moment that changed me: After seven years of hiding my skin, I washed my makeup away in the sea

May 2024

  • Zoe Williams

    Worried about your beach body? Take a lesson from gen Z

    Zoe Williams
    Young women find my generation’s reflexive, internalised fat-shaming weird and ridiculous. So, at 50, Zoe Williams is taking a leaf from their book
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