Why “Fitspiration” Isn’t so Inspirational
48If you are on Facebook, Pinterest, or Twitter, you have seen fitness inspiration images just in time for “bikini season” to motivate you to “get fit” – we call them “fitspiration.” They are almost always images of parts of women without heads or faces. They …
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Vogue Mom Shows Us How NOT to Fight Childhood Obesity
The teaser on the cover for what’s being called the “worst Vogue article of all time” is unbelievably misleading: “A Mom Fights Childhood Obesity at Home.” The truth is, if the article’s author, Dara-Lynn Weiss, mother of 7-year-old Bea, was genuinely trying to “fight obesity,” …
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How We Got Here: Lindsay and Lexie’s Story
Author’s Note: Though this was written by Lindsay, my identical twin and co-founder of Beauty Redefined, Lexie, wholeheartedly says “ditto” to this story and sees no sense in writing a duplicate one to bore you all. So this is OUR story! Lexie (L) and Lindsay (R) with the beautiful coordinators of …
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Healthy Redefined Part 2: Forget About Fat and Get Fit!
Read Part 1 of this “Healthy Redefined” Series Here In a world where health successes and failures are too often measured entirely by weight loss or weight gain, we have to seriously reconsider this idea. Fitness researchers prove it: “There is a need to increase knowledge and …
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Healthy Redefined Part 1: Measuring the Obesity Crisis
From unfortunate fat-shaming in Georgia’s “Strong4Life” campaign put on by Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta to kids being graded on their weight in public schools across the country via their BMI score on their report cards, we see well-meaning people using harmful and ineffective strategies like …
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Sex Appeal and Thin Ideals: Are Men to Blame?
We know body hatred, self-objectification, disordered eating and cosmetic surgery are at all-time highs. So who is to blame for all the serious body image issues so rampant among girls and women today? Money? Media? Sexism? Psychological factors? While it’s likely a complicated combination of …
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Vanity Fair-Skinned Only? The Race Issue in the “Hollywood Issue”
I guess the last couple years of backlash wasn’t enough to convince Vanity Fair to stop whitewashing beauty off the cover of its annual “Hollywood Issue.” The “Fresh Faces of 2010” featured a lineup of nine beautiful young stars, all of whom had one noticeable attribute …
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Running from Self-Objectification
At Beauty Redefined, we know there is a war being waged against females from all sides. We’re not being overly dramatic when we tell you this – it is at the heart of why we do what we do. We know how capable and powerful …
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ESPN’s “Hot or Not” is Soooo Not Hot.
Every week, Utah-based sports radio station ESPN 700 takes a break from sports commentary to host a forum for objectifying, degrading, insulting and marginalizing women called “Hot or Not Wednesday.” Three weeks ago, after receiving a sincere and eloquent e-mail from one of our fans …
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Cosmo Magazine: The Best-Seller That Sells Women Short
Cosmopolitan magazine - the notoriously risque and best-selling women’s magazine for decades – says it is “by women for women.” In a media landscape jam-packed with sources by men for women, this magazine has serious potential to break free from the stifling, predictable, cookie-cutter portrayals of sexuality, bodies …
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Body Hate Apocalypse 2012: The End of Body Hating As We Know It!
2012 is going to mark the end. The Mayans predicted it thousands of years ago. But rather than Armageddon, we think an epic end of a different kind is right around the corner: The end of body hating as we know it. Body Hate Apocalypse 2012 is ON! 2012 is …
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If Beauty Hurts, We’re Doing it Wrong
If you’ve ever read our work, there are a few things you know (and if not, here’s a quick lesson in all things Beauty Redefined!): 1. Rest assured every image you see of a women in media has been digitally manipulated, and the billions of …
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To BE or To Be Looked At?
You are capable of much more than being looked at. Have you thought about this statement? Do you understand the gravity of it? This was the first of the four messages Lindsay and I carefully chose for our billboard campaign that went up in June …
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Is “Inner Beauty” Enough? This Guy Reminds Us It’s Not.
Author’s Note (12/11/11): After posting this several hours ago and sharing it on Facebook, I’ve been bombarded with a couple hundred comments - some immensely supportive, constructive and productive, some intensely angry at me. It’s now 4 a.m. and I just got off the phone with Lexie …
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Taking Back Beauty: A Movement is Underway!
Beautiful Magazine Summer 2011 Since we launched our groundbreaking body positive billboard campaign in northern Utah this summer and fall, we have been overwhelmed and amazed at the love, support and attention Beauty Redefined has received from individuals and organizations all over the world. From …
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