Between the viral tweets about girls at summer camp being required to wear T-shirts over their swimsuits (while the boys go shirtless) and the dozens of messages we receive weekly about how to handle double-standard dress codes for girls, we decided to share a brief guide. As you see double-standard dress code rules being enforced […] The post Navigating Double-Standard Dress Code Dilemmas appeared first on More Than A Body.| More Than A Body
Our first book, More Than a Body, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, is available everywhere! Get your copy today! Find it anywhere books are sold, including every retailer linked below: Amazon Barnes & Noble Bookshop Books-a-Million Hudson IndieBound Powell’s Target Walmart Book Description: Positive body image isn’t believing your body looks good; it is knowing […] The post Our Book: More Than a Body appeared first on More Than A Body.| More Than A Body
As singing icon Adele is being celebrated worldwide for her significant weight loss, the body positivity world is grappling with what it means when a “full-figured” icon no longer fits the bill. That’s a lot of responsibility, and she never asked for it. Without posting any side-by-side comparison pics or discussing her health or her […] The post Adele as a Savior or a Threat to Your Body Image appeared first on More Than A Body.| More Than A Body
By Lexie Kite, Ph.D. One of the biggest barriers many women face when working to improve their body image and heal their relationship with their bodies is the judgment and rejection they fear from their romantic partners. This seems to be particularly true for women in heterosexual relationships who have grown up viewing and monitoring […] The post Objectification & Loving Relationships Are Not Compatible appeared first on More Than A Body.| More Than A Body
By Lindsay and Lexie Kite, PhD So many people have been writing and asking us to weigh in on the Super Bowl halftime headline about whether the performances were empowering or objectifying. (You know that question is generally our forte!) But our input here is more nuanced than some might expect. In summary: Shakira’s and […] The post J-Lo and Shakira’s Halftime Performance Was Both Empowering and Objectifying appeared first on More Than A Body.| More Than A Body
By Lexie Kite, Ph.D. Some of the most frequent questions we’re asked about body image revolve around teaching and raising young girls. The reasons why are obvious: It is extremely difficult to live in a female body, let alone raise girls growing up in this wildly objectifying world. Far too often, girls grow up being […] The post Raising Girls with Better Body Image: FAQs appeared first on More Than A Body.| More Than A Body
By Lindsay Kite, PhD How did wearing a bikini become the gold standard for demonstrating body positivity? Yes, every body is a bikini body if that’s what you really want to wear, but why are two-piece swimsuits (and posting pictures of ourselves in them online) now the ultimate signifier of female confidence? Why have so […] The post The Bikini Tyranny of Body Positivity appeared first on More Than A Body.| More Than A Body
By Lexie Kite, Ph.D. I know a 12-year-old girl who is the embodiment of our famous Beauty Redefined mantra: My body is an instrument, not an ornament. She is kind, innocent, active, and largely free from the burden of living to be looked at that is placed upon women’s shoulders around the age of puberty. […] The post Save Your Girls From Instagram appeared first on More Than A Body.| More Than A Body
By Lindsay Kite, Ph.D. The most-liked pics of women on Instagram are the body-baring ones. When lifestyle bloggers post casual swimsuit pics of themselves in front of a cool brick wall — looking off to the side, toes turned inward, hips pushed back to subtly emphasize a “thigh gap”; when Instagrammers smile at the camera […]| More Than A Body
Our hearts broke when we saw a flyer for a church prom with these instructions this week. Dress codes like this might inadvertently do more harm than good. They inadvertently sexualize young women as a collection of inappropriate body parts, positioning them as threats to be mitigated at any cost.| More Than A Body
