In a moment of candid reflection that she did not expect to go viral, therapist Lucie Vallée, who herself had once struggled with body image issues, turned her phone camera on, hit record, and asked ...

For decades, society has reinforced the idea that a thin body is the pinnacle of health, happiness, and success. This cultural obsession with thinness—known as the "thin ideal"—has been perpetuated by ...

The idea that “Thin is in” arose with the Twiggy era in the 1960s. It was about this time that the saying, “You can never be too rich or too thin,” became popular and was repeated by celebrities such ...