Posts Tagged ‘body image’
How old are you really?
This is my Gen X Girl column from this week's Townsville Bulletin Savvy Magazine. Cold weather getting you down? Feel like you’re getting old and tired before your time. Well here’s a way to check and provide a bit of self-inflicted [...]
Liar, liar, liarexic
Are you a liarexic? What, you’ve never heard of liarexia? It’s a condition, experienced mostly by women whereby they lie about their food intake? Hmm, imagine that—women with food issues. Anyway to put it succinctly it’s a condition [...]
Diana would be 50 today–how time flies
Happy 50th birthday Princess Diana. Well happy 50th birthday if you were still alive. Newsweek has gone all out with a creepy cover to commemorate the big day. And no you're not seeing dead people in the Newsweek photo. They really have [...]
Warnie the trophy wife
This is from my weekly column that appears in the Townsville Bulletin's Savvy Magazine. I love makeovers. Love TV makeover shows more for that matter. Property, people, lifestyles—I'm all over them. Just so long that some that was previously in [...]
This is what happens when you get skin cancer
I haven't posted for a couple of days because I'm sulking. I'm sulking because I had PDT treatment done on a teeny, tiny BCC (basal cell carcinoma) hardly visible to anyone who has not a dermotologist's eye. This particular BCC was conveniently [...]
This ad got pulled in the US. Is it really that offensive?
The National Eating Disorder people in the US have had this Yoplait ad pulled from the air. Gosh it's radical. It features a woman going through the consequences of deciding whether or not to eat some raspberry cheesecake. Really out there isn't [...]
Happy birthday, baby. Here’s your boob job.
Kids these days--they've got it all. Come birthday time and there's nothing left to give them. Unless of course you are self-proclaimed human Barbie doll, Englishwoman Sarah Burge who was faced with the age old dilemma come birthday time for her her [...]
Do you find this poster a bit unnecessary?
So what do you think of the promo poster for the US version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? Me? Not liking it. Looks too much grunge porn for my liking. And why has Daniel Craig got wrapped round Rooney Mara's neck like that? Does he want [...]
Still think that tan was a good idea
I'll admit that I'm a bit of a sook. Those labradors in the Kleenex ads make me cry. Those mummy/baby cuddle ones--yep have me blubbering. But this ad made me sad for a whole different reason. See as a typical Aussie girl I am a walking [...]
Dancing with the bogans
This week's column for the Townsville Bulletin's Savvy magazine where I discuss the questionable celebrity qualities of the contestants of Dancing with the Stars. It’s official. Australia lacks any real celebrities. At least that’s the way it [...]
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