Alexa Chung
Chung responded to critics who suggested that her slight frame made her a bad role model for young women, saying:
“Just because I exist in this shape doesn’t mean that I’m, like, advocating it.”
Lady Gaga
After the media focused on her alleged weight gain in September 2012, Gaga hit back at critics by baring her body in photographs, sharing her struggles with an eating disorder, and inviting her fans to join her in a “body revolution.”
Adele
Adele says she tries not to worry about her body image and doesn’t want to be a “skinny minnie.”
“The first thing to do is be happy with yourself and appreciate your body — only then should you try to change things about yourself.”
Stella Boonshoft
The NYU student started the amazing Body Love Blog, where she posted this picture of herself and wrote an open letter to those who feel entitled to shame others for the size or look of their bodies.
When Ollie Orchard, now 22, first stepped into a gym at 18, he weighed less than six stone.
Fast forward four years and Ollie has tripled his body weight after discovering working out and a healthy diet.