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When I was a teenager, the one style I wanted to emulate most was faux androgeny. I wanted to rock the menswear look: straight-leg slacks and starched dress shirts, spiked short hair, a sexy, almost masculine swagger.  With double D’s and a short stature, however, I chalked it up as a never-to-be-realized dream.  I have [...]

I have three words:

No. More. Uniboob.
(Okay, “uniboob” isn’t a word, but bear with me, here.)
If you have big boobs, you know exactly what I’m talking about: a single band of stretch cotton, smooshing your chest into an indiscernible blob, which bounces in a single, sticky, sweaty motion despite your sports bra’s purported “support,” while the [...]

Naturally, if you’re a regular follower of The Demoiselles, you know that we preach self-love as gospel. Accepting yourself, accepting your “flaws” and accepting your insecurities… They’re all part of our master plan to ensure that you enjoy your life, as you, as thoroughly as possible.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the bond between [...]

Here at the Demoiselles, we talk a lot about body image, and more specifically, about self-image.  The biggest goal of this website (and its owners) is to promote your own acceptance of YOU, all the way from your wide hips to your tiniest bits, no matter what the media thinks, or what the guy you really, really want [...]

It didn’t take long for me to react to the following photos, originally published in “Curves Ahead,” an editorial from the January issue of V Magazine (also called “the size issue”).

My reaction was, in short:
Do I see back fat?  Sexy back fat?
And does that mean I could have sexy back fat?
And if it [...]

Sometimes, we get reduced to a blubbering pile of Demoiselle after coming across something truly thought-provoking. Honestly, this doesn’t happen all too often in the land of Fashion-&-Body-Image, but every so often we find a jewel that really makes us think.
Plus-sized model, Crystal Renn, and Spring 2010 Fashion Week darling Jacquelyn Jablonski faced off before [...]

Here’s a snippet of a recent conversation I had during a post-Christmas dinner with my father and his girlfriend:
Her: “Well, maybe you could take some aptitude tests to figure out what you want to do, what you’d be best at.”
Me: “It’s not that I don’t know what I want to do; it’s that I want [...]

If you ask any catty office workers, high school misfits, or fashion-conservative connoisseurs, they will tell you that the best way to go from looking really chic to really, really tacky is to over-sexy-fy yourself.
This is a delicate topic… Lines within the “sexy” realm are easily blurred, erased and completely re-drawn – sometimes all within [...]

Last week, I was challenged to do a whopping 180 minutes of exercise as part of the Getting Healthy project.  I had to get creative about when and where I worked out – at home with a video, walking with a friend – but with the recent cold snap in Seattle, I wanted to stay [...]