Category Archives: Body Image

A quest to free us from body image issues and their irrational waste of brain space. Not always successfully…

Help Me Busts 4 Justice: I have Fibromyalgia and my bras hurt

Even the best fitting bras can irritate once in a while; but what do you do when a chronic health condition means they hurt all the time? Help Me Busts 4 Justice! I’m a 20 year old with a chronic … Continue reading

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Help Me Busts 4 Justice: am I making my stretch marks worse?

Busts 4 Justice puts on her agony aunt hat (and bra) to help K with the tricky issue of stretch marks on young boobs. Help me Busts 4 Justice! I have white stretch marks on my breasts that distress me. … Continue reading

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As if the bra fitting wasn’t bad enough… VICTORIA’S SECRET NOW STEALING BUMS

Not content with riddling generations of American women with horribly fitting bras, and waging an offensively bland campaign to convince us that sexy = smooth + orange; Victoria’s Secret continue their war against the human woman’s body with this latest … Continue reading

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H&M say no to real women…

Ever thought there was something not quite right about H&M models? Or just assumed that over-enthusiastic retouchers had edited out the certain je ne se human from its models along with the normal skin texture and traces of arm hair? … Continue reading

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Australia Star in a Bra Top 20 announced.

The top 20 girls in Curvy Kate’s first Australian Star in a Bra competition have been revealed, and voting is now open on their Facebook page. As always, the girls are gorgeous, curvy, healthy and (importantly) smiling; and whoever wins will go … Continue reading

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