In her new memoir, New York City Ballet’s first Asian-American soloist speaks out about racism and sexual bullying in ballet. Now she wants to overhaul the industry from withinWhen Georgina Pazcoguin was 19 years old, she went to see a doctor about her…
Tom Daley on love, grief and health: ‘It was hammered into me that I needed to lose weight’
Fresh from winning gold in Tokyo, the diver answers readers’ questions on everything from gay role models to his passion for knitting and the secrets of his successTom Daley, Britain’s most decorated diver, grew up in the spotlight. He was 14 when he m…
‘It took a year to get help’: generation Z on mental health decline
Technology and Covid lockdowns blamed for rise in eating disorders and insomnia among the youngIt was while browsing on social media at the age of 13 that Hannah realised she had an eating disorder. Seeing other girls and women talking about their expe…
Muscling in at Muscle Beach: Haley Morris-Cafiero’s best photograph
‘I took this near where people work out for my guerilla-style Wait Watchers series. When it went viral, I started getting hateful messages about my body’It all started when I took a self-portrait in Times Square, New York. After I got the film develope…
Teenage girls, body image and Instagram’s ‘perfect storm’
The suffering of the photo-sharing app’s users came into focus this week with the leak of Facebook’s internal research‘I felt my body wasn’t good enough’Emily started using Instagram when she was in her mid-teens and found it helpful at first. She used…
Record number of young people wait for eating disorder treatment in England
Psychiatrists say rising demand is overwhelming services amid rigours of pandemicCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA record number of children and young people with a potentially life-threatening eating disorder are waiting fo…