The Demoiselles

I recently met with a trainer – you know, one of those free sessions you get for joining a gym – to discuss my “workout goals” and how to reach them. When he asked for my goal weight I said, “Something like 125.  I mean, that’s a soft goal.  I’m not sure where my body [...]

Christina Hendricks, of Firefly notoriety (our favorite) and current Mad Men fame, is a constant topic of discussion here, as you may have noticed. She was recently interviewed as a “Healthy Celebrity” (noteworthy on its own, good job, media!) in the latest issue of Health magazine. It took only three questions about random things before [...]

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 [...]

An article on Jezebel yesterday alerted us of a New Zealand advertisement for a weight loss drug, Xenical. Sure, we’ve all seen commercials on the tube for everything from pills to patches to pulsating electrical currents that promise to shed the pounds while you sit around sedentary – ahh, the easy life. But what if [...]

I’ve struggled with negative body image and self-scrutiny for the majority of my life. At this point, age 25, I’m fairly comfortable saying that I’ve just about overcome it. Writing TD and analyzing my mental and physical tendencies has allowed me to truly see how much hating my physical form really affected my life. Things [...]

What a refreshing development – Debenhams, a UK retail store, is running a swim campaign by loudly renouncing retouched photos. Yes, selling swimsuits by showing images of models that haven’t had their arms literally shaved off and their waists whittled to unbelievable proportions. Could it really be true? Yes. The store’s windows display large, clear [...]

Do you have kids?  Siblings?  A boyfriend or girlfriend?  Impressionable roommates? When you look in the mirror, what do they see? When I was little, I remember my mother’s nude body shimmying as she stepped out of the shower.  I remember how comfortable she seemed in her skin, and how I always saw beauty within [...]

There have been some really interesting stories this week! Here are our favorites: Lillian Behrendt muses on American Apparel’s (and other “youth-centric” brands’) stifled sizing accommodations. I am in my early 20’s. I will wear stupid pants. So will just about everyone else who is my age. Stupid pants are an important part of human [...]

Despite the Seattle rain, I’m determined that summer is almost here.  In an attempt to will the sun out with my mind, I’ve been thinking a lot about swimsuits lately: the current styles, the retro trends, the way they make us feel, the intense amount of Photoshopping involved in showing them off, and how that [...]