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Topic: Body-shaming

British actress Millie Bobby Brown poses on the red carpet upon arrival for the BRIT Awards 2025 in London on March 1, 2025. (HENRY NICHOLLS/AFP via Getty Images)

Media’s fixation on young women's bodies

Nardos Haile
Sydney Sweeney attends the premiere of "Eden" during the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival at Roy Thomson Hall on September 07, 2024 in Toronto, Ontario. (Emma McIntyre/WireImage/Getty Images)

Body-shaming Sydney Sweeney and control

Nardos Haile
Melanie Lynskey as Kathleen Coghlan in 'The Last of Us' (Liane Hentscher/HBO)

"The Last of Us" and Lynskey's strength

Kelly McClure
Britney Spears performing on stage during her "Piece of Me" Summer Tour Opener at The Theater at MGM National Harbor on July 12, 2018 in National Harbor, Maryland. (Kevin Mazur/BCU18/Getty Images for BCU)

Britney Spears' troubling body comments

Alison Stine
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Sad woman sitting in the crowd (Getty Images/studiostockart)

How shame became cultural currency

Keith A. Spencer
Donald Trump; Stormy Daniels (AP/Shutterstock/Salon)

Stormy, Trump and the "huge" question

Matthew Rozsa
Joy Nash as Plum Kettle on "Dietland" (Patrick Harbron/AMC)

We all live in "Dietland"

Melanie McFarland
Megyn Kelly (AP/Charles Sykes)

The Megyn Kelly Diet: Fat shaming!

Gabriel Bell
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Demetria Obilo (KLAS)

Twitter shuts down body-shamer

Rachel Leah
Chloe Grace Moretz (AP/Chris Pizzello)

Snow White and the bodyshamers

Katie Serena
Katy Mixon in "American Housewife" (ABC)

ABC's new "American Housewife"

Melanie McFarland
Ashley Graham (Reuters/Joshua Roberts)

Graham's message to critics

Scott Eric Kaufman
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Wentworth Miller (Reuters/Phil McCarten)

Miller shuts down body-shamers

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Emily Ratajkowski (Reuters/Luke MacGregor)

Ratajkowski shakes off trolls

Erin Coulehan
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-748867p1.html'>RStollner</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

"Any body is a bikini body"

Rachel Kramer Bussel
(<a href=http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-804901p1.html'>ruigsantos</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Body shaming the skinny girls

Jenny Kutner
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