The Skinny Little Bitch Project is a biweekly updated-when-I-can feature dedicated to examining the role of weight in celebrity culture and the impact of size in one woman’s daily life. The entries may be triggering should you suffer from an ED or body image issues. For more info on the project, or to read it [...]

The Skinny Little Bitch Project is a biweekly feature dedicated to examining the role of weight in celebrity culture and the impact of size in one woman’s daily life. The entries may be triggering should you suffer from an ED or body image issues. For more info on the project, or to read it from [...]

You don’t need to be a musical theatre fan to look at Judy Garland and see something, well, magical. After watching some of her performances it seems like millions of times, beneath the talent – that face, that voice, those moves – you cannot help but begin to see what lay beneath the surface: A [...]

When I was 9 my doctor showed me a drawing that looked like a wave. She was pretty, with shiny cropped hair, and a tan like  my mothers’ – skin freckled and toasted smelling. “Here,” she pointed to the wave’s lowest point, “- is the lightest, ” then she moved her finger to the wave’s [...]

  When you exercise, the cunning machinery of your body gets to work. The process is as slow and as steady as a train. It’s rapacious, ingenious, and something that never fails to impress me. It’s not unlike that opening number from the Music Man: Or maybe it isn’t and I just like the Music [...]

  I was squatting naked on the floor. I held the glass scale in my hands and knocked it repetitively with medium force on the only exposed square of laminate on my floor, portioned out of the sea of clothing that covered the rest of my floor and cleared, for just this purpose. In this [...]

Television has a long and storied history when it comes to managing their actress’s real-life pregnancies. Typically this involves standing behind couches or holding boxes,  being shot from the waist up, or being abducted by aliens, you know, the usual. Less common, though not untried, the actress in question may find herself donning a fat [...]

Tiny food makes me sad. Don’t get me wrong, I totally understand only wanting to eat a bite or two of something, but does that bite or two need to taste like the underside of a cardboard asshole? I THINK NOT FRIENDS. When I was a teenager I started noticing the Snackwell brand treats. The [...]