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The outspoken Amy Schumer is never one to miss out on the opportunity for a good joke.

However, while Amy is perfectly fine with using her comedic skills to point out how women in Hollywood are judged for their appearance, her own body image issues have taken their toll on the star.

The 34-year old is working with Goodwill on a project that aims to inspire women to dress themselves with confidence.

She explained that it was inspired by her own insecurities related to being in the public eye:

“Some nights I just didn’t even want to go on stage because I couldn’t find an outfit I looked good in,” she told the Today Show.

Talking to Maria Shriver about the project Amy further explained that it has been a “struggle” for her for her entire life.

Amy Schumer on Today

“Being in the entertainment industry, standing on a stage in front of people. I can’t perform my best or be confident if I’m not sure if I’m pulling at something.”

She admitted that sometimes her anxieties concerning her public appearance made her consider giving up her career:

“Sometimes I would just want to throw in the towel and say, ‘I’m not going to do stand-up tonight.’”

She said that meeting the stylist from Trainwreck, Leesa Evans, had a huge influence on her self-confidence.

“Leesa had given me this gift of showing me how to dress and feel good,” Schumer explained, tearing up.

In an emotional moment, Amy tearfully added, “To see the person I care the most about being given those tools was just really moving for me and I just wanted to give it to every woman.”

 

 

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Model Roz Purcell has made something of a second career for herself with her love of cooking, but her relationship with food wasn't always so straightforward.

Nowadays, the 25-year-old has her own food blog, Natural Born Feeder, where she shares recipes for everything from paleo Ferrero Rocher muffins to dairy-free creamy chicken and broccoli bakes.

However just five short years ago, the model was surviving on a drastic low-calorie diet to stay as thin as possible.

"Five days a week I would just eat veg and at the weekends we would splurge on cupcakes," she said of her stint in the US after winning a contract with Donald Trump's modelling agency.

The former Miss Universe Ireland restricted her diet to drop the pounds, keeping her hunger at bay with copious amounts of coffee.

"I can never drink Starbucks again because I was using it to suppress my appetite,”  she told the Irish Daily Mail’s TV Week magazine.

"It reminds me of being really hungry. I came back and realised I would never go through that again."

As for exercise, these days Roz uses a mix of high-intensity interval training, cycling, swimming and boxing to stay fit – a stark contrast to her former regime which consisted of non-stop running.

 

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"I would run and run and run maybe 14 kilometers every day and downing coffee," she said.

"Models train like athletes now, that’s just the way it’s gone."

Speaking about her love of boxing to SHEmazing! recently, the model said her first attempt floored her – but she adored every bit.

 

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"The first class almost killed me. Afterward I felt like I needed to go lie down for the rest of the day.

"But now I’ve found my stride and I’m loving it."

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X Factor judge Cheryl Fernandez Versini has said that she thinks she is a “low maintenance” type of gal, but she is also prone to shouting when she gets into arguments.

However, she did explain that she doesn’t lose her head over the smaller things:

“I've learnt how to express my feelings in a calm way, even if I do want to shout. And if I shout? You know it's bad. But I save it for the big things – I never lose it over the toilet seat being left up."

 

Good to know! The 32-year old was chatting with InStyle magazine about her marriage. When asked what being married to the her is like, the Geordie had some interesting comments:

“I think I'm low maintenance, but maybe I'm deluded… My day gets planned in advance all the time, so I’m like. ‘Oh, actually change that. We can’t meet tonight’.”

 

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She also discussed the attention her physical appearance has been receiving of late. Cheryl thinks there is a “crazy” double standard when it comes to body image.

“You'd never be allowed to say to somebody, 'Oh, you look a bit fat.

And being overweight is unhealthy – it's actually a bad message to tell someone who is obese that they look 'curvy' or 'great'.”

 

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She added that after being in the media for so long now, she doesn’t think there’s anything said about her that she hasn’t already heard.

Cheryl admitted that while she’s developed a thicker skin surrounding the attention she gets in the media, and when it comes to those toilet seat discussions- she thinks she needs to toughen up on the X Factor.

"I’m like a sponge and I’m too sensitive. It was making us ill with stress and worry.

People think, 'Oh, she's sitting there in a pretty dress,' but I get so wrapped up in the arguments that the contestants are having. It affects me."

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Amy Schumer is a legitimate star. The actress has been gathering up some impressive awards of late. Not only did her hilarious TV series Inside Amy Schumer take home an Emmy award last week, she’s also got a Peabody Award and a Critic’s Choice Television Award to her name.

Now she has another trophy to add to her collection: Best Body.

 

There are so many foods I want to thank

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The 34-year old shared a hilarious photo on Instagram that captured the very moment she was announced the winner of the Best Body award. She appears to be both shocked and delighted with her win.

Her caption is probably the best part though: “There are so many foods I want to thank.”

The comedian is not someone who is afraid to poke fun at herself, and how often brings up the topic of body image online and in her work.

While she often makes joke about her own weight, she tends to make a very clear point that she is happy and confident just how she is, and other women shouldn’t feel the pressure to slim down either.

“It’s very therapeutic for me to be like, ‘Yes, I’m not going to look like a malnourished bird,’ and I like speaking to that, as well as speaking to my work and what I’m doing,” she told reporters during the press tour for Trainwreck.

"I'm not going to apologize for who I am, and I'm going to actually love the skin that I'm in. And I'm not going to be striving for some other version of myself,” she said at the Glamour UK Women of the Year ceremony.

Also, let us never forget the time she photobombed the entire cast of Game of Thrones:

We have a lot of love for Amy Schumer right now.

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In our world, looking at Instagram and Facebook all day can cause us to constantly compare ourselves to others.

If you’re in need of a little confidence boost today or any day in the near future, these Instagram accounts can really help.

These accounts a filled with quotes all about body positivity and loving the skin you’re in and we LOVE them.

As Instagram can be a platform for causing insecurities, we are happy that some accounts use it to help people gain more self-esteem.

Eff your beauty standards

 

via @nedastaff -@alisongo

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Healthy is the new skinny

 

Honor curves

 

I always thought I was "too much" of everything: too loud, talked too much, too tall, too big, too shrill, too manly… Too, too, too. Fuck about a "too"! We're too fabulous–and exactly the right amount of EVERYTHING we each should be. Embrace your bony knees, flat butt, round tummy, big boobs, pointy nose, big forehead–whatever part of yourself you've been rejecting. The only thing we are doing "too much" of with self-hatred is hurting our own feelings with harsh judgements, rather than opening ourselves up to all the beauty that is our true being underneath the fretting. We have never been too much. We are enough. We are never too fat, too skinny, too manly, too scrawny, too round, too tall, too short… We are who we are and we are loveable as we are. #HonorMyCurves

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Positive and motivational quotes

 

For more quotes, follow @thegoodfitness #TheGoodVibe #TheGoodQuote #GoodVibes

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It's not often that retail giants take the feedback of individual customers on board, so we were delighted to hear that Topshop had done just that this week.

Customer Laura Berry issued a complaint via Facebook after seeing a mannequin in her local branch of the clothing store that she felt was a "ridiculous" representation of a normal woman. 

"[H]aving been paid yesterday, I decided to spoil myself by purchasing a new pair of my favourite Jamie jeans. However, I was stopped in my tracks by the mannequin in the picture I've shared with this post," she wrote on Topshop's official page earlier this week.

"I'd love to hear how you can justify the ridiculously tiny mannequin in your Bristol Cribbs Causeway store? We come in all shapes and sizes… this mannequin is quite frankly ridiculously shaped. Young women aspire to the somewhat cult image your store offers. Which I'm sure you're aware by your sales figures and hashtags on Instagram. Yet not one mannequin in your store showed anything bigger than a size 6," she added.

Clearly realising that the anger and frustration expressed by Laura was a sign of a bigger problem, Topshop responded within 24 hours to say they would no longer be using the offending mannequins in stores. A response posted as a comment to Laura's original post read, "We have taken yours and other customers’ opinions and feedback on board and going forward we are not placing any further orders on this style of mannequin."

In defence of the mannequin the store said the style was "based on a standard UK size 10" although "the overall height (187cm) is taller than the average girl and the form is stylised to have more impact in store."

Earlier this year a similar image went viral after a size 8/10 woman posed next to a "standard" Topshop mannequin and posted the results on Twitter:

Hopefully Topshop take this incident as motivation to start promoting a healthier body image in stores.

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Have you heard of #ThighReading yet?

This summer alone there have been almost countless body-positive hashtags and trends floating about on social media. From clown contouring to the semicolon project people have been doing their best to spread the message about positive body image.

#ThighReading has found people of all ages and body types tweeting pictures of their thighs to celebrate their imperfections.

It started with Twitter user @princess_labia who first used the hashtag earlier this month. She spoke with Elite Daily about the trend and explained the meaning behind it.

“Looking at my thighs and feeling the grooves of my stretch marks… the thought that they looked like lifelines, like a palm reading, just came to me.”

She went on to say that while she frequently tweets about her body’s ‘imperfections’ she didn’t expect her followers to respond as much as they did.

“There are so many faces and body types and features that girls never get to see reflected back at them. Girls have tweeted back at me that they had no idea so many women have stretch marks, and that’s so sad, right?”

The actor, writer and student who is based in NYC said that she finds it distressing that something as “normal” as stretch marks are something “we’ve been taught to be ashamed of”.

Soon her 10,000 followers were getting behind the trend and it has been steadily gaining recognition across social media. She said that: “When I think I spend too much energy focused on body positivity and self celebration, I remind myself that suicide is the number one killer of teenage girls worldwide.”

She said that believes #ThighReading has helped both her and her followers gain a new perspective on body positivity. 

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Despite selling an estimated 60million albums globally, she has struggled with body insecurities since finding fame at the age of 21.

Indeed, it's an issue she's been refreshingly open about.

However, appearing yesterday at the Los Angeles Pride, Kesha sparked waves of 'did she/didn't she' surgery rumours – namely because of the shapely derriere she sported.

Wearing a skin-tight, glittering leotard for the performance, she teamed the outfit with knee-high black patent leather boots.

Previously, images of the singer show her with a noticeably different shape – though she has yet to confirm or deny the speculation. 

Kesha was admitted to a rehab facility in January of last year for treatment of an eating disorder. 

The 28-year-old has said that the music industry sets "unrealistic expectations for what a body is supposed to look like".

She added: "I felt like people were always lurking, trying to take pictures of me with the intention of putting them up online or printing them in magazines and making me look terrible."

And in a 2013 interview with Self magazine, in which she stated that she doesn't have "a perfect body," she further explained: 'For me, I like showing off my legs because I work really hard on them.

"So you will rarely find me wearing pants."

However, she admitted that she refuses to weigh herself: "I stay far away from a scale because it's not about a number, it's about how I feel. I try to eat healthy because it makes me feel good."

The LA-native also filed a sexual assault civil suit against music producer Dr Luke, someone she once cited as a mentor, in October.

It is alleged that in the past Dr Luke had drugged her and forced himself on her, threatened to take away her publishing rights and constantly belittled her appearance.

The case is ongoing. 

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We all have our own body hang-ups, be it our small boobs, our big boobs, our Beyoncé booty or our flat bum. No matter how body confident you are, every girl on the planet has those "ugh I'm a MESS" moments from time to time.

Imgur user SomewhereUnderWater wanted to show followers a real, no-filter look at her body, and so posted a brilliant collage of four images showing how her stomach appears in different positions:

"We aren't barbies. We are made of flesh and blood. These are all the same body — my body. I have worked hard for this body and I am proud of this body," she wrote on the image-sharing site.

"In a world were [sic] we are surrounded by the images of our friends highlight reel sometimes it's good to see a little reality so we can keep our expectations real. No matter where you are on your body's journey, be proud and love yourself. Make goals because you love your body not because you hate it."

The response to the images have been phenomenal – they have been viewed over a million times and have been praised by users all over the world.

"Thank you! As someone who has lost a ton of weight, it's hard to be happy with the new me when I see my belly not super flat all the time," commented one Imgur user. "I'm slim and my belly's flat, but not while sitting. And sometimes it looks bloated. It's perfectly natural. We have digestive systems," wrote another.

Speaking about the overwhelming reception to the images, SomewhereUnderWater says she was "so very grateful," and added: "The important thing is that we love our bodies — and when I say that I mean that we care for our bodies. We won't always like everything that they do, or the path they have gone down or everything that happens to them but we do have to love them."

Words to live by.

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Kim Kardashian might come across as the most body confident person EVER but she revealed this week that she has her own image hang-ups too.

The reality star is currently in Paris enjoying the end of Fashion Week and supporting her husband Kanye as he plays a series of concerts for the Louis Vuitton Foundation.

With her sister Kendall taking to the catwalks for Chanel and Balmain among others, Kim has an instant foot in the door with all the PFW models – but she revealed she's been finding it a little difficult to stay positive.

Sharing a photo on Instagram of herself, Kendall, Joan Smalls, Lily Donaldson, Cara Delevingne and Gigi Hadid, Kim wrote, "Not insecure at all standing next to these super models":

Although she looks downright fabulous and just as gorgeous as the other ladies in the picture, we can see how body insecurities would rear their ugly head when you're suddenly surrounded by a gang of stick-thin supermodels.

Whatever about Kim's feelings, Kanye is more than delighted by his wife's curves, if the photo she posted on Instagram just minutes beforehand is anything to go by:

Those two can't get enough of each other!

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Kim Kardashian knows how to rock her curves, but she seemed to be throwing some shade at her current appearance in a recent Instagram post.

The reality star shared a throwback picture of herself and Kourtney at the Emmys back in 2009, and was quick to note that she had gained some weight since then.

Kim captioned the picture, "Since it's award season I will do my #TBT to the time Kourtney and I went to the Emmys. She was pregnant and I was about 15 to 20 pounds thinner."

Given that it's been almost six years since that picture was taken, during which time Kim kas given birth to the adorable North, it's understandable that she would have gained some weight. We hope she realises she looks just as fab now as she did then… plus she's ditched the hoop earrings on the red carpet which is always a bonus!

Fans shared their reassurance in the comments, with one saying, "Everyone changes body wise u look beautiful just the way u r," and another noting, "Yeah but now you have a child." True!

Kim has always been open about her health and fitness journey, and shortly after North's birth she revealed she had gone on an extreme liquid diet combined with an "intense" gym routine after ranting on Twitter about her "huge hips and butt."

We're glad to see a celebrity being honest about their body image issues, but we hope Kim realises that her curves are gorgeous!

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Associate Fashion and Beauty editor of Bustle magazine, Marie Southard Ospina, is the latest person to challenge global perceptions of beauty.

This year, we’ve seen women send their images to photoshopping experts across the globe and requested the photos be altered so that the result fits in with that particular culture’s understanding of ‘beautiful’.

Well, Marie has gone one step further and investigated the cultural link between beauty and weight which allows us to see how many experts altered Marie's size in a bid to make her ‘beautiful’.

Having been judged on her size, Marie says "Stereotypes include, but are not limited to: laziness, selfishness, stupidity, naiveté and even a lower socioeconomic class."

Here are just some of the results of Marie's experiment.

Ukraine

Mexico

Latvia

Despite some obvious alterations having been made to Marie's size in some of these images, she says: "I'm aware that the notion of "thin is the only beautiful" doesn't permeate the entirety of the world."

Evidence of which can be seen in Italy's and Australia's re-touching which doesn't appear to focus on Marie's size as much as other country's did.

Italy

Australia

What do you make of Marie's investigation?

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