Recently, more women have been opening up on social media about what it's like to have loose skin and it has been widely accepted into the body positivity movement. But while some people learn to live with it, others find it very difficult, and some resort to surgery to have the loose skin removed. This episode features the stories of four women and one man who have all lost significant amounts of weight and are left with loose skin as a result, with very different perspectives on how they feel about the experience and their bodies..
It's not unusual to hear of men using steroids to 'pump up' their physique under pressure to look ‘good’. Meanwhile, the number of men in England receiving treatment for eating disorders is reported to be on the rise. In this episode, five men – of all different shapes and sizes – talk about their own bodies and reveal what it’s like to feel the pressure to look the part in a six-pack-obsessed culture.
In recent years, there’s a been a huge growth online in the body positivity movement amongst amputees and people with a ‘limb difference’, but in a world which seems increasingly obsessed with having the ‘perfect body’, what’s it like to be missing one or more limbs? This episode meets four men – one born with a limb difference, two who lost limbs in accidents and one who chose to have a limb removed – as they talk about their bodies, how they came to have a limb difference, how other people see them and what it’s like to live with prosthetics.