body image

In the letter from Southaven Middle School sent Tuesday, parents received information about helping girls develop a healthy body image. The school’s solution? Shapewear, in part.

Billie Eilish reflected on how watching pornography for the past eight years has influenced her views on sex, bodies and herself: “I feel incredibly devastated that I was exposed to so much.”

After a pregnancy, social media can create pressure for new moms to “snap back” to their pre-baby weight. But it’s important to understand that pregnancy changes moms’ bodies and those changes are normal, Dr. Rebekah Diamond explains.

A day after an outage that lasted several hours, whistleblower Frances Haugen testified before the U.S. Senate about Facebook’s platforming of extreme views and reports that it and Instagram created body image issues among young people. CNBC Reporter Lauren Feiner explains why there’s support on both sides of the aisle to regulate the Big Tech company.

Many people try to use social media as a source of “fitspiration,” but obsessing over how others look can make us feel bad about ourselves, and hurt our mental health. Clinical social worker and therapist Dr. Courtney Tracy talks about how we can use social media carefully, and explains researchers’ growing concerns about social media causing suicidal thoughts in teens.

Wall Street Journal tech reporter Georgia Wells talks about the recent widely shared report documenting Facebook’s awareness of body image issues stemming from the app Instagram. Teenage Instagram users who experienced body image issues said the app was making those issues worse with a focus on fitness and showing more and more pages with idealized bodies.