If you’ve got an athletic or rectangle body shape, getting dressed can feel weirdly hard for someone whose proportions seem "balanced." Shirts don’t drape right, jeans make you look boxy, and dresses ...

You pull out outfit after outfit, trying to make something work. The jeans that once fit like a dream now feel off. The dress that looked cute on the hanger suddenly makes you question everything. You ...

The Difference: Athletic bodies have muscle tone and definition that skinny bodies lack, but significantly less mass than ...

The "athletic" body type represents the mainstream fitness ideal:the body that results from regular exercise, healthy eating, ...

The body-positive movement has encouraged people, especially women, to see beauty in all shapes and sizes, and it's reminded us that body ideals are culturally constructed and not based on science.