Comedy writer Ian Karmel has been making fun of his own body since he was a kid. He wrote T-Shirt Swim Club: Stories from Being Fat in a World of Thin People along with his sister.

Carolyn Hax is away. The following first appeared Dec. 17, 2008. Hi, Carolyn: With the obesity problem America is having, why is it that “society” says it is not nice to make a comment about a ...

A Harvard study, drawing on data from the Implicit Association Test, which asks people to sort words and images into “good” and “bad” categories, found that implicit bias against fat ...

Beloved TV Star, 68, Gets Candid About Body Image: ‘In My Head, I’m a Fat, Fat Person’ originally appeared on Parade. Richard ...

For years, the ‘fat funny friend’ was one of the few ways fat women were allowed to exist on screen.  Loud, self-deprecating ...

Being thin is not the same as being healthy, experts say. Avoid these common flubs when you're trying to lose weight. — -- In the ongoing war on obesity, health officials have consistently ...

The documentary ‘Your Fat Friend,’ featuring author and podcaster Aubrey Gordon, is a radical and much-needed addition to writing and advocacy against fatphobia and a reminder to become an ...

Fat people in 49 states can still lose their job just for being fat. Love Is Blind is more of a hypocrisy than anything else, failing to make good on its promises to eliminate beauty standards.

My entire life has been a pendulum swinging between my depressed, fat years and my striving to be thin and stay that way. I’ve followed Oprah’s journey as I’ve gone through my own.

As fat activist Aubrey Gordon delivered a talk at her first ever book signing, her doting father Rusty turned and whispered to the person sitting next to him: “That’s my daughter.” This ...

That’s the cultural narrative: that fat people are thin people who are failing. And so, I was bought into that. So that was scary to kind of, in a certain way, announce, ...