One of the first questions Darryl Roberts asks in his documentary America the Beautiful is “Who benefits from women not feeling beautiful?” As the film spends the next 105 minutes trying to find the answers to that question, you witness the full impact of our obsession with beauty through tales of girls with eating disorders, plastic surgeries gone wrong, and the whirlwind modeling career of Gerren Taylor who did her first runway shows at the age of 12.



Roberts, who undertook this… Continue

First there was the image of Lizzie Miller, sitting naked, belly resting on her lap, and looking confident in the pages of Glamour magazine. After a huge response with women crying for more “Lizzie Millers”, Glamour responded with a commitment to feature more of a variety of body shapes and sizes within the pages of their magazines. Then there was designer Mark Fast’s move to feature plus-sized models on the runway during London’s Fashion Week. Not long after that, we heard that France is… Continue

How ironic that I gathered material to write this article over a month ago, but because I am NOT good at managing my time, particularly with my kids home full time for the summer, I was not able to get to the tips OR article until now.



But I drank a pot of coffee today, determined to get this article written, and finally published it! If only I had read these tips and started implementing them from day 1 after school was out!



I hope others find this article… Continue

By now we all know about the mad dash on Facebook last month to secure personalized Facebook URLs. Unfortunately, they placed limits on the fan pages for securing the URLs, and so far I do not yet meet the criteria to get Facebook.com/VenusVision. At this time I only have 37 fans, and I need 100 to get the URL.



I've tried spreading the word about my fan page, but can't seem to get more people to join. I am posting about it here in hopes that my new SheWrites friends can support the… Continue