In Nigeria, plus-size women are often celebrated as symbols of prosperity and fertility. A fuller figure is associated with good health and high social standing, making it an admired trait across many ...

Being plus-size comes with some beauty challenges that few people want to talk about. These challenges include excessive sweating, skin tags, stretch marks and chafing, just to name a few. It’s almost ...

Despite some monumental body positivity movements over the last few years, for many of us, the pressure to be ‘thin’ is back. Weight loss injection adverts are all over social media, American ...

I had three best friends throughout most of school, all of whom were thin. Like most teenagers in our tiny suburban town, their favourite thing to do on weekends was go to the epicentre of adolescent ...