In Western culture, women’s ideal body shape is very thin and unsurprisingly, many women exercise primarily to lose weight. In this context, muscularity is often associated with masculinity and thus, ...

In the middle of BBC World news is a story about a South Korean pop star turned to bodybuilding. The Korean feminine body ideal, the report reveals, has long been petite and thin, but is now changing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before transitioning, I was a WWE star, weighed in at 280 pounds, and had 6% to 8% body fat. To get the feminine body I dreamed of ...

Women have long been subject to powerful social pressures to look a certain way. The “feminine ideal” – a svelte female figure – has dominated film, television and magazine culture. The result is a ...