Joni Edelman

If you decide pit or leg hair isn't a big deal, then bam! It's not a big deal.

Psychiatric illness is still stigmatized. And that’s hard when you have a psychiatric illness.

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I said (on TV, to Rachael Ray, so there are a few million witnesses): If you want a bikini body, put a bikini on your body.

Sam: The first time you mentioned that you have five kids I was like WHAT THE ACTUAL. FIVE HUMANS. FIVE HUMANS CAME OUT OF YOU. Like, not at the same time, but they came out and like, that sounds painful and scary WHY DID YOU DO THAT??

The FDA has approved a new drug for banishing double chins . . . it's ACID.

As long as I can remember having paid attention to the media, I can remember a woman's weight—or body in general—being a news story.

Let's get to it—a primer on The Sex.

You may have seen the acronym "HAES" floating around the Internet, and that is because the "Health At Every Size" movement has taken over THE WHOLE WORLD.

I didn't get a lot of mothering as a child, but when I did, it was from her. She taught me how to sew, how to crochet. She taught me how to stand up for myself, to be tough. She taught me how to make fried chicken and fried okra, which I will never make, because it's fucking gross.