How Looks Affect Your Work, Your Career, Your Life

by Jessica Bennett Jul 19, 2010 4:15 AM EDT

In 2010, when Heidi Montag’s bloated lips plaster every magazine in town, when little girls lust after an airbrushed, unattainable body ideal, there’s a... MORE

Why I Don't Care About the Beauty Standard

by Raina Kelley Jul 19, 2010 4:00 AM EDT

Society favors the young, the thin, the white. I'm not gonna get there. So why obsess over it? MORE

She Stoops to Conquer

by Jessica Bennett Jul 19, 2010 4:00 AM EDT

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The Lengths We Go for Beauty

Jul 19, 2010 4:00 AM EDT

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Poll: How Much Is Beauty Worth at Work?

by Jessica Bennett Jul 18, 2010 8:00 PM EDT

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Fat Camp, In Your Face

by Jessica Bennett Jun 27, 2010 8:00 PM EDT

Fat kids stuck at fat camp may be "the heart of America," as ‘Huge’ star Nikki Blonsky has put it, but just because the show is the only nonreality series... MORE

The Case Against Marriage

by Jessica Bennett, Jesse Ellison Jun 11, 2010 9:00 AM EDT

Sure, some weddings are fun—but too often they're a formulaic, overpriced, fraught rite of passage, marking entry into an institution that sociologists... MORE

Heidi Montag: Why Her Plastic Surgery Disturbs Us

by Sarah Ball, Jessica Bennett Jan 14, 2010 7:00 PM EST

By the time she turned 21 in September 2007, MTV reality star Heidi Montag had already had a nose job, collagen lip injections, and implants that turned her... MORE

Tiger-Stalking: In Defense of Our Tabloid Culture

Dec 11, 2009 7:00 PM EST

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Candidates: Using TV to Reach 'Low-Info Voters'

by Suzanne Smalley May 31, 2008 9:02 AM EDT

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