The body-positive movement has encouraged people, especially women, to see beauty in all shapes and sizes, and it's reminded us that body ideals are culturally constructed and not based on science.

Growing up in the early aughts, so-called women’s magazines, read furtively in the library, were my religion. I was a true believer, zealously committing the good books — Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, and ...

Bodies come in different shapes and sizes, influenced by a person’s frame and composition. Different body types include triangle, rectangle, hourglass, ectomorph, mesomorph, and endomorph. Different ...