I Love My LGBT Body

I Love My LGBT Body is a Facebook page created by Leon Silvers, an eating disorder therapist in NYC, to spread awareness of eating disorders and body image issues in the LGBT community.” Silvers photographs various members of the LGBT community and interviews them about their experience with gender, sexuality, identity, body image and eating disorders. Eating disorders […]

Losing “It” and Gaining Acceptance In The Anti-Dieting Age

Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s recently-published New York Times piece, “Losing It In The Anti-Dieting Age,” investigates the changes within the diet industry as a result of the “anti-diet movement” and how it affects the millions of Americans trying to find the balance between weight loss and body-acceptance. As a fat woman, Taffy discusses her experiences with companies […]

Step by Step, Word by Word: Confronting Eating Disorder Stigma Through Writing

I’ve always known that I was a writer. I was the kid with an overactive imagination and a knack for weaving my thoughts into convincing stories, and I was so hopelessly in love with writing that I could see no other way to live. I am writer, utterly unfit to do anything else. Signs of […]

Former ‘Bachelor’ Star Britt Nilsson Bravely Opens Up About Her Struggle with Binge Eating Disorder

For 21 seasons, The Bachelor has invited viewers into the infamous mansion to follow the love story between two people. We as the audience sit at home, critique, judge, and become infatuated with the lives of these strangers, holding our breath as each rose is passed out until the bachelor has found the love of […]