Model Chrissy Teigen, perhaps best known for being on the legendary 50th Anniversary Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue,?recently confessed that even the most physically flawless women in the world are subjected to body-shaming.
In an interview with...
Cara Anna had tried to commit suicide twice when she realized she needed help. Out of shame and fear of losing her job as a foreign correspondent in China, she had never asked for help...
When a beautiful plus-size ?27-year-old mom took the stage in a skimpy outfit at Britain's Got Talent, the judges looked a bit confused by?the pole in the middle of the stage. I'm a chubby chick...
Many years ago, I read a news story about a man who left his children?in the car with the windows rolled up so that he could go look for mushrooms in the woods. Both were...
DIY fixer uppers for your kitchen, DIY lightning bugs in jars (neat little trick actually!), and now, DIY plastic surgery.
Yep.
Do-it-yourself plastic surgery for those who want their bodies enhanced in some fashion but can't afford...
Why are insects so creepy to us? A few are poisonous, so we definitely have to be alert to that. Some are just bothersome (I'm looking at you, fleas!). But aren't some of our food...
I want to talk about my IUD. I promise it's not going to be a lot of "TMI" stuff -- it's not my practice to talk publicly about my sex life, my health, my...
There's a new implant in town, and it could help severely obese people lose weight. The Maestro Rechargeable System?is designed to curb appetites by electrically stimulating the nerves in the stomach.
The manufacturer, EnteroMedics Inc., is...
Medicine has modernized mechanically at a very rapid rate over the years, but with notable exception in one particular field. Ultrasounds, MRIs, CT scans, pacemakers ? but when it comes to fertilization, though, clinics still...
Little Vinnie's Tattoos in Finksburg, Maryland offers the gamut of ?tattoo designs, but people come from all over the world for one special tattoo: the "Vinnie," a special three-dimensional nipple tattoo by owner Vinnie Myers....
I've seen a lot of stories over the years about how women who are getting beaten up by their husbands put makeup on to hide the bruises. But it's easy to tell what's happened to...
This article was originally published on AlterNet and is reprinted on Liberal America with the permission of the author.?
In ?The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why?? (New York Review of Books, 2011), Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief...
A middle-aged couple in the United Kingdom has been arrested for "cruelty and neglect" of their obese child.
The police investigation has shown that the intervention for the child only happened because the other attempts to...
If you've ever wondered exactly what it looks like for lungs to smoke 60 cigarettes, this video will show you. Be warned: it's disgusting.
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The age-old wisdom of people having few regrets after living...
Beards are as common as Tootsie Rolls these days, but before they cycled in and out of our lives solely on the whims of fashion they did so at the whims of medicine.
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When we have children, we imagine the life that lies ahead of them. We imagine who they will become, what life they will live, and the future accomplishments they will achieve. We never imagine that...
BuzzFeed recently "scoured America" to find the three remaining people who haven't eaten at McDonald's. Here are their reactions to a Big Mac and the famous McDonald's fries -- and it may make you rethink...
