Swimming is one of the most pleasurable things you can do on a vacation, and the experience is even more special if you're doing it in the buff. Skinny

Times, they are a-changing, and we couldn't be more thrilled. In the past, plus-size women have had to settle for whatever oversized, floral, and frankly

I am not a fan of shorts. Nor, let’s be honest here, are they really a fan of me. This isn’t to say that I don’t appreciate shorts on other people.

All of my fellow indecisive ladies, please stand up. Every time an outing requiring a swimsuit pops up, I spend far too much time ruminating over one

"So let me ask you a question," Norma Kamali says midway through our interview. Facing me across a small, fancy sofa we’re sharing in a central London

This story was originally published May 23, 2017. If you tuned into the Miss USA competition last weekend, you might have noticed some big changes. For

It's difficult not to feel disheartened by the average swim ad. So many campaigns feature overly sexualized imagery that seems designed to pander to the

Jane the Virgin’s Gina Rodriguez just got real about what the pressures of Hollywood are really like for her on the cover of Shape magazine’s latest

This story was originally published on August 22, 2017. “You’re fat?” I stared at the Tinder notification on my phone; wonder how I should

When Mariah Herrera walked into her doctor's office last week, she almost felt sick to her stomach with worry about being weighed. It's not an uncommon

When fitness trainer Jessi Kneeland posted a photo of herself stretching at the gym on Monday showing the dimples on her legs, plenty of her followers

A few years ago, the words "body positivity" might not have meant much to most people. But now, many of us know that body positivity is a movement to help

As part of our Take Back The Beach initiative, Refinery29 visited six countries (Israel, Liberia, Russia, Iceland, Mexico, and South Korea) to find out

After competition organizers reportedly told her to lose weight, Zoiey Smale has returned her Miss United Kingdom crown, and has withdrawn from an

A splash birthday party for my three-year-old cousin ended up turning into an all-ages family affair as my relatives gathered together in a D.C. suburb

Growing up in Australia, I had a lot of friends who were "beach people." They wore Havaianas and bikinis at 9 years old, and they would ace swimming

"Traveling while fat" sadly still often carries a stigma. Women with bigger bodies face discrimination both at home and abroad, get body-shamed on

Advertising your services as a fitness trainer is one thing, but trying to shame someone into hiring you is another. Cassie Young, a digital director on

Earlier this month, an Instagram post by a man named Robbie Tripp went viral (for better or worse) because it was a long tribute to his wife's "curvy

Earlier this summer, photographer Sunmin Lee visited two major destinations for vacationers and surfers in South Korea, Haeundae Beach and Songjeong

Krystal Miller is a self-described "bag lady" and chock full of confidence, if her blog and Facebook page are any indication. But she didn't always feel

The phrase "taking up space" has become somewhat ubiquitous lately. The concept, of course, means different things to different people beyond literally

It all started with the “fatkini.” In May 2012, blogger Gabi Gregg called on plus-size women to share photos of themselves wearing their two-piece

Plus-size blogger Gemma-Louise Bond is speaking out against "swimsuit fear" and the body stigma that leads to it. As she writes in a recent Facebook post,

There’s a campground that sits right in the center of the tri-state intersection between New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey that’s home to one

My mother is incisively bright, supportive, loyal, deeply loving, and steadfast to a fault. She’s also profoundly fattist. Let me paint a scene from

My sister fulfilled her dreams of becoming a mother just ahead of my high school graduation, making me an aunt when the idea of babies was still just a

Former British Vogue editor-in-chief Alexandra Shulman may have had it all wrong. If a photo from her most recent vacation is any indication, turns out

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