By Lisa Pool Content Manager | October 5, 2012 at 11:26 pm | No comments
Powerful and truly inspiring words from a woman who would not tolerate the harsh, cruel words of an email from a viewer. Instead of letting a bully's harsh words about her weight bring her down, WKBT-TV news anchor Jennifer Livingston decided to speak up.
In an editorial...
Posted in: Culture, Latest News
By Lisa Pool Content Manager | October 1, 2012 at 6:58 pm | No comments
Christina Aguilera covers Billboard Magazine this month to promote her newest album, Lotus, featuring the single "Your Body." In the interview, she recalls the pressure that music studios put on her image in the early-aughts, something she's not standing for in these P.B....
Posted in: Celeb Buzz, Latest News
By Lisa Pool Content Manager | August 3, 2012 at 8:10 pm | No comments
In a follow up post to the young teen who had her ears pinned and her face altered with plastic surgery to stave off bullying at school, QG WD shares a story on the freakishly popular craze with young teens to squeeze their bodies into shape wear (i.e., the popular Spanks brand...
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By Lisa Pool Content Manager | July 20, 2012 at 5:51 pm | No comments
Hmmm... We've thought this all along, but according to a new study conducted and featured in the August issue of Psychology Today, men prefer curves and instinctively "know" something about women's bodies that we girls just don't seem to get - curves are BETTER for everything....
Posted in: Latest News, Lifestyle
By Lisa Pool Content Manager | June 1, 2012 at 5:50 pm | No comments
One of our most requested QG WD Q&A interviews is here... our very own moment with the legendary curvy supermodel, Emme! Long known as the voice of the plus size community since her days as a top print and runway model, Emme has been incredibly busy changing the curvy world...
Posted in: Celeb Buzz, Latest News
By Lisa Pool Content Manager | May 3, 2012 at 12:34 am | No comments
From one of our fav buzz sources over at Jezebel;
"I didn't think it was going to get this big," said a trench-coat-clad 14-year-old Julia Bluhm as she stood in the drizzle outside the Midtown skyscraper where Seventeen magazine is headquartered. Bluhm was talking about the...
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By Lisa Pool Content Manager | March 25, 2012 at 6:11 pm | 2 comments
Thinspo, the gross and double gross, not to mention incredibly dangerous and not at all responsible "group" of insidious starve-junkies recently pushed their toothpick social personalities onto the vastly popular networking outlet Pinterest. Happy to say this super fun and...
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By Lisa Pool Content Manager | March 28, 2012 at 4:04 am | No comments
Now we've heard everything. Martine McCutcheon, bodacious Brit beauty (you know her from "Love Actually" wooing Hugh Grant) who has been spotted looking noticeably curvier of late, is reportedly being advised to pile ON the pounds ahead of the launch of her fitness DVD.
The...
Posted in: Celeb Buzz, HEALTH + WELLNESS, Latest News
By Lisa Pool Content Manager | March 23, 2012 at 8:40 pm | No comments
We get it, really. Life coaching, as is so envogue these days, is touted as the next best thing to weekly therapy sessions and Xanax popping, but is it really for the "regular" gal? Can a pricey life coach replace a pricey therapist? Can we create alternatives for ourselves,...
Posted in: HEALTH + WELLNESS, Latest News
By Lisa Pool Content Manager | March 11, 2012 at 1:53 am | 6 comments
Idiocy knows no bounds. QG WD discovered c/o one of our fav mom sites Circle of Moms, that Senator Glenn Grothman (R) wants to "ban" single parenting in the state of Wisconsin - are you kidding? Punish and ban any single mother (or father) because he believes unmarried...
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By Lisa Pool Content Manager | March 5, 2012 at 6:41 pm | 31 comments
OK, we know, QG WD writers are kinda' hooked yoga (we promise to post this month on running, cycling and other fitness stuff) but it's so darn amazing for toning and stretching, and the statistics for stress reduction, blood pressure reduction, calming the mind and basically...
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