Drop the model search and this could be a good issue: Dolly March 2013

If Dolly wasn’t persisting with its Model Search competition, which returned last year having been sensibly done away with by previous editors, I could probably have given this issue the thumbs up. Lydia Turner, Managing Director at BodyMatters Australasia, and I have written before about why this competition – won in 2012 by a 13-year-old […]

Teen magazine blows its cover in search of impossible perfection

Dolly’s Model Search has torpedoed a government attempt to set up industry self-regulation on body image.  We give talks at schools about body image and there are always girls in tears. They come up to us afterwards and confide that they compete to see who can eat the least number of calories at lunch. Even […]