Body image

This provocative image has sparked an international debate about what women's skirt lengths say about their sexual habits.

Barbie has been an astronaut, a pilot and a doctor but in the 1960s, all she wanted to do was starve herself to lose weight. The controversial ‘Slumber Party Barbie’ was released in 1965, and came with a set of pink scales permanently set to a tiny 110lbs (50kg) and a diet book entitled ‘How […]

Anna Nicole Smith’s daughter has landed her first modelling job at the tender age of six. Danielynn is the new face of Guess, the same brand her mother modelled for before her death from a drug overdose in 2007. The campaign has outraged parenting experts who think young girls should be sheltered from the spotlight […]

Hugh Jackman is back in Sydney and leaving half of Bondi swooning with his sexy body.

Her scarily-thin frame sparked controversy last year but the backlash doesn't seem to have affected Candice Swanepoel, who has posted a picture of her concave stomach on Twitter.

Thousands of Australian women would love to look half as good as these lovely lingerie models, but a British doctor thinks two of them are overweight, while one is obese. The five models above feature in a shapewear campaign for UK department store Marks and Spencer. Like many ordinary women, they range in size from […]

After years of being bullied and feeling bad about her body, 18-year-old Stella Boonshoft did not expect to be overwhelmed with positive feedback after an image she posted on her blog wearing only her underwear went viral last week. The photograph of the size 16 New York student and the impassioned blog post that accompanied […]

Following the release of shocking figures that more than half of the UK’s hospital admissions for eating disorders were under-20 and some of those under-10, social media has copped much of the blame for contributing to the development of eating disorders in “the Facebook generation”. Teen and pre-teen eating disorders are on the rise with […]

Already one of the most common chronic disorder affecting young girls, eating disorders are starting to strike at a younger age with children as young as seven being admitted to hospital for treatment. Data from the UK shows that more than 50 under ten-year-olds were admitted to hospital with eating disorders in the past year, […]

Fashion magazines are constantly criticised for altering images to make models appear thinner, but in the latest Photoshop fail, an international fashion magazine has been attacked for airbrushing skinny supermodel Karlie Kloss to make her appear more full-figured. Posing in Numero magazine, the 20-year-old model is pictured topless with her hands raised above her head […]