This is a collection of brilliant posts collected by The Demoiselles over the week. Some may have been featured on our Twitter, some may have been sent to use through email, or by our friends on Facebook. Please check out, and send love to the blogs featured here – they’re all worth a look!

Jezebel has been covering Crystal Renn’s alleged weight loss… Which would sound pretty superficial and counterproductive, if she’d actually lost any weight, which she didn’t. The photographer just “shaped her”, because it’s “his job to make women look beautiful.” Nice.

This is a really interesting chart that shows various people at their heights and weights. And by all, we mean all – nearly every height/weight combination is represented with a photo! A great reminder that everyone holds their weight in different ways. (Shown to us on Facebook by Antishay.)

“As long as society resists female power, fashion will call healthy women physically flawed. As long as society accepts the physical, sexual and economic abuse of women, popular culture will prefer women who resemble little girls. Sitting in the hospital the summer after my college graduation, I grasped the absurdity of a nation of adult women dying to grow small.”

- Abra Fortune-Chernik, “The Body Politic”

New tech girl-crush, Jolie O’Dell, talks about her own weight loss journey, and how the blogging lifestyle and all its sedentary goodness can be really detrimental.

One of our favorite blogs, Eat The Damn Cake, wrote a great piece titled “I Used To Be A Skinny Person.” Definitely worth a read.

Boston.com published an article for Moms with tips on how to approach young girls and daughters about the idea of body image and “role models.”

The Wholestyle Network linked to an interesting article about exercising while recovering from an eating disorder.

This is definitely one of my favorite reads: Shelby Knox wrote about her experience participating in a photoshoot… The title should be enough to rouse your interest. Take a look at My Day as an Anti-Feminist (Role) Model.

Lilian Behrendt talks about how we’ve (d)evolved into a culture of bullying.

More Eat The Damn Cake for your enjoyment: All Men Are Pigs, And Other Popular Misconceptions.

We’ve decided that when Lindsay moves to Seattle, we’re going to start a gigantic library full of books on body image and media theory… Luckily, Cynosure has provided us with a list of 8 books (“that will transform your eating & body image”) that we’ll definitely be picking up!

Don’t forget to send us anything you find relating to health, body image, or media standards! We love mail!

Images from The Natural Female Form