Showing 16 - 30 of 36 articles tagged "Body Portrayals and TV"

• Posted Tuesday 4/21/20 at 5:39AM EDT

  Merritt Wever is too good for Run: Why does her character have to spend time loathing her body?

  "It is true that Wever does not necessarily resemble a typical leading lady," says Philippa Snow of Wever's new HBO...

• Posted Tuesday 4/14/20 at 3:09AM EDT

  Kumail Nanjiani was surprised Silicon Valley writers didn't incorporate his ripped body into the final season after giving them a head's up

  “I told them, ‘I’m gonna look pretty different,'” Nanjiani said in an Instagram Q&A, referring to his swole body for...

• Posted Tuesday 3/10/20 at 1:23PM EDT

  Kumail Nanjiani struggled with "some body dysmorphia" following his physical transformation for Marvel's The Eternals

  "I don't want to discount people who genuinely have debilitating body issues," the former Silicon Valley star says in Men's...

• Posted Saturday 3/07/20 at 3:38AM EST

  Why Love Is Blind made the right choice in excluding fat people

  The Netflix reality show is accused of being fatphobic.

• Posted Friday 2/21/20 at 2:51AM EST

  Why do TV's fat women have crappy love interests?

  From Shrill to Euphoria, "the few stories we see about fat women are still so often limited to their love...

• Posted Thursday 2/06/20 at 10:36PM EST

  Lili Reinhart pushes back on Twitter complaint about Riverdale stars being in their mid-20s with "perfectly chiseled bodies"

  "Don't you think TV shows like this aimed at teenagers are contributing to unrealistic body expectations (and) body image issues?"...

• Posted Saturday 1/25/20 at 2:27AM EST

  Aidy Bryant's Shrill continues normalizing fat people in Season 2

  Season 1 of the Hulu series starring Bryant was "unabashedly about Annie deciding that she will no longer live a...

• Posted Thursday 1/23/20 at 1:12AM EST

  From Shrill to Work in Progress to Euphoria, fat women are no longer the butt of TV jokes

  "Fat, it seems, is the new frontier," says Robyn Bahr.

• Posted Wednesday 1/15/20 at 5:18PM EST

  Aidy Bryant on promoting Shrill: Reporters keep asking about my body while trying to avoid using the word "fat"

  Bryant said in a conversation at the 92nd Street Y last night that reporters often use euphemisms like “chubby sweets.

• Posted Friday 12/13/19 at 3:26AM EST

  TLC's Hot & Heavy "mixed-weight" reality show accused of fatphobia and fat fetishization

  The upcoming reality show focusing on three "mixed-weight" couples consisting of a "hunky" man and a plus-sized woman has received...

• Posted Friday 12/06/19 at 1:05PM EST

  Jillian Michaels says The Biggest Loser is a victim of political correctness: Obesity shouldn't be glamorized

  Michaels tells Women's Health UK that the push against body shaming hurt her former NBC weight-loss reality show, which USA...

• Posted Thursday 9/05/19 at 3:32AM EDT

  "Fat Monica" is an intrinsic part of Friends’ canon that it cannot seem to escape, even 25 years later

  "Even if you overlook the fatphobia that follows this character around like a shadow, you’ll find that the biggest problem...

• Posted Tuesday 8/13/19 at 11:49PM EDT

  Jameela Jamil: I became powerful enough to convince NBC to stop airbrushing me for The Good Place billboards

  Jamil, who has been crusading to stop Hollywood airbrushing, tells Variety she's been lobbying for years against being airbrushed in...

• Posted Tuesday 6/25/19 at 1:54PM EDT

  Camila Mendes says Riverdale costume fittings drove her to seek help for eating disorder

  Mendes says she would have to go through "overwhelming" two-hour fittings every few episodes where her character would wear tight...

• Posted Wednesday 4/03/19 at 6:29PM EDT

  Project Runway keeps struggling to dress plus-sized models

  The Bravo reality show is in its 17th season, yet it still has trouble finding designers who can dress models...