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How to survive bad body image during lockdown

It took just two days for the memes to start. The fat jokes nestled innocently amongst pictures of people stockpiling loo roll and singing on balconies, providing all the LOLz to a world quickly succumbing to COVID-19. For many, it seems the one thing wor

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This is going to make thousands of kids happier and you can help

I rarely come on here at the moment. Its not a planned thing, its a time thing. Juggling various different projects (all of which I love, but all of which take time!), working many hours a week, leaves little time to create the type of content on here tha

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Body image workshops for teachers and other anti-diet wish-list must-haves

On a rainy, cold, dark and dreary day two weeks ago in London a team of people met to discuss how to end the marketing of diets and weight loss products around kids. It wasnt a high profile meeting endorsed by celebrities or featuring #gifted goodie bags

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Kids school photos are being airbrushed, and it is not OK

On a late-night scroll through Twitter last night I saw a tweet about an airbrushing option being offered for one schools photos. I was shocked, but after a bit of a read back over the tweeters timeline (the broadcaster Sam Walker), I saw she lives in Ame

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#FreeFromDiets Phase 2: its all happening!

It started earlier this year, when a leaflet for a local diet club landed on my doormat. I uploaded a bit of a ranty Instagram Story, talking about why it wasnt OK to put leaflets for diet clubs through peoples doors. And my DMs lit up. I heard from p

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REVIEW: Our Mark Warner Holiday to Perdepera, Sardina

The Mark Warner Perdepera resort in Sardinia sits nestled between a white sandy beach and lush green mountains, and when we woke up on our first morning in the resort we thought wed been transported into an actual postcard. (SPOILER we would return in a

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Introducing the Naked Beach educational toolkit bringing body image lessons into schools

One of the reasons I went out to Greece last year to film Naked Beach was because, as a mum, I feel really passionate about changing the body image culture my girls are growing up in. From social media feeds full of digitally manipulated images, to TV

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Body Cons is BACK! Details about Season 2 of the hit podcast about body image

If you have a body, you have a body image. Some of us feel good in our skin, some of us feel bad, but one thing is for certain: we can all be affected by body insecurities. Season 2 of Body Cons delves deeper into this subject and Im so excited to sha

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How to wear what you want

Theres this idea that we have to stick to rules around fashion. If youre over a certain age you cant wear a short skirt (dont be a mutton dressed as lamb!), if youre over a certain size you cant show too much shape (shes brave showing her tummy!), if your

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My campaign to ban ads for slimming clubs and weight loss products near kids #FreeFromDiets

I try really hard to make my home a space free from diet chat and negative body talk. It wasnt always this way, but the moment my (then) 5 year old asked why I was weighing spinach was a wake-up call. Although Id never been to a slimming or weight los

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