Body Portrayals and TV
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Posted Saturday 4/09/22 at 2:45AM EDT
Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls is delivering a huge wake up call to the dance industry
Alexandra Patrick, a 30-year-old freelance dance teacher and choreographer, is the kind of person Lizzo's new Amazon reality competition is...
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Posted Wednesday 3/09/22 at 9:53PM EST
Sebastian Stan says that losing weight to play Tommy Lee on Pam & Tommy helped contribute to his body dysmorphia
Stan went from bulking up for Marvel's Falcon and the Winter Soldier to losing a drastic amount of weight to...
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Posted Saturday 2/05/22 at 4:05AM EST
It's strange that NBC, where This Is Us' Chrissy Metz is a star, would put Renée Zellweger in a fat suit for The Thing About Pam
"Hollywood has produced another 'unrecognizable' transformation via fat suit," says Libby Hill.
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Posted Friday 2/04/22 at 4:44AM EST
Euphoria's Barbie Ferreira calls out "backhanded compliments" about her body
"It's not radical for me to be wearing a crop top," she tells WhoWhatWear of people praising her for choice...
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The Bachelor delves into body image issues even as it's been notoriously fatphobic
Monday's episode featured former Bachelorette Kaitlyn Bristowe moderating a discussion between Clayton Echard and his bachelorettes on body image.
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Posted Tuesday 1/18/22 at 7:55PM EST
Allison Tolman urges TV writers to "take the jokes about weight out of your scripts"
"I promise they aren’t funny.
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Posted Friday 12/24/21 at 2:15AM EST
Kate Winslet: The discussion around my Mare of Easttown appearance "blew my mind"
“People were asking, ‘Did she gain weight? Didn’t she look frumpy? Wasn’t that brave of her?’" Winslet tells The Guardian.
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Posted Tuesday 10/26/21 at 3:51AM EDT
Renée Zellweger photographed wearing facial prosthetics and a fat suit for NBC's The Thing About Pam
The Oscar-winning actress is the latest skinny star to wear a fat suit for a TV role, months after Sarah...
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The Simpsons praised for new breast cancer survivor character Dr. Wendy Sage
Sage made her debut Sunday as a hypnotherapist and breast cancer survivor who has had a unilateral mastectomy and is also...
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Posted Wednesday 9/15/21 at 10:36PM EDT
Impeachment: American Crime Story is further proof that fatness remains a costume in Hollywood
"Even as the conversations around body acceptance and positivity have advanced – and representation of people of all body sizes...
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Posted Saturday 9/11/21 at 2:39AM EDT
Impeachment: American Crime Story's fixation on women's bodies is gratuitous and cruel
"In the opening scene of American Crime Story: Impeachment, Monica Lewinsky (Beanie Feldstein) is on her way to meet her...
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Posted Monday 8/30/21 at 1:19PM EDT
Sarah Paulson admits "regret" but defends wearing a fat suit playing Linda Tripp in Impeachment: American Crime Story
Paulson, who spent three hours in hair and makeup to transform into Tripp, addressed the controversy over her wearing a...
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Posted Saturday 9/19/20 at 2:57AM EDT
Tatiana Maslany was a good choice to play She-Hulk, but it would've been nice to see a thick, muscular-bodied woman in the role
"In the comics, She-Hulk is Jennifer Walters, a lawyer and cousin to Bruce Banner/Hulk," says Mae Abdulbaki.
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Posted Friday 8/07/20 at 2:01PM EDT
Debra Messing regrets dropping from a Size 8 to Size 2 while starring on Will & Grace
Messing discussed Hollywood's untraditionally thin beauty standards in the late 1990s on Jameela Jamil's I Weigh podcast.
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Posted Friday 7/03/20 at 4:09AM EDT
Kumail Nanjiani has come to hate his shirtless beefcake photo
“Listen, it got so much bigger than I thought it was going to get,” Nanjiani admitted during a Hollywood Reporter...