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Liz Black is used to handling runway samples, having worked in the high-end fashion industry for years.

“I’ve always been shocked when I’ve seen those runway samples up close because these sample sizes are so different from my clothing size,” the P.S. It’s Fashion blogger — who, at a size 16, is just slightly above the national average  — tells Yahoo Style. Sample sizes, which are the sizes created by designers for runway models and celebrities to wear, usually come in somewhere around a size 2 to a size 4. read more

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The billboard in question. (Photo: Carter’s)

Fit4Less gym, based in the U.K., has found itself in the midst of a controversy over one of its billboards this week. The gym’s ad, which features a furry green monster, is making people upset because it specifically mentions “fat” people. read more

An advertisement that was banned in the U.K. last year for being harmful.

Every person around the world most likely sees an advertisement promoting a negative body image every day. Although this is just a simple truth, one that’s so common that most people don’t even consciously realize it, London’s new mayor wants to change the status quo. read more

This evening is the seventh and final game of the NBA Finals, where the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers will face off once again for the championship (they played each other last year, and Golden State won). read more

Performers prepare backstage for rehearsals ahead of the First World Conference on Tourism for Development to be held this week in Beijing; two endangered common marmosets grip a finger after being seized from a South Korean smuggler in Goyang, northwest of Seoul, South Korea; and Nepalese devotees pull a giant wooden chariot in a circle to celebrate Rato Machhindranath, the god of rain, during a festival in Lalitpur, near Kathmandu, Nepal. (AP/EPA) read more