Most Runway Models ‘Meet the Physical Criteria for Anorexia,' Says Mag

Many people believe that models have gotten thinner over the years, and Plus Model Magazine is out to prove just how unhealthy women walking the runway really are. There's a NSFW photo spread in the January issue which features nude photos of plus-size model and "America's Next Top Model" contestant Katya Zharkova. The most unsettling of the photos show Zharkova posing with a much traditional model who looks like a small child by comparison. To up the ante, each shot is accompanied by depressing facts about the modeling industry. Here is a sampling of these facts and phrases that run alongside the photos: 

- Most runway models meet the Body Mass Index physical criteria for Anorexia. 

-Twenty years ago the average fashion model weighed 8% less than the average woman. Today, she weighs 23% less. 

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Giuliana Rancic Is More Religious Since Breast Cancer

Three and a half weeks since having a double mastectomy, Giuliana Rancic says she's "doing better than I anticipated in recovery."

While that's great news for the E! host, she also says her breast cancer ordeal has changed her life for the better "in so many ways." 

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Self-publishing 27-Year Old Makes $4 Million

Author Amanda Hocking is pretty much a normal 27-year-old. She lives with her best friend in Austin, Minnesota, where she grew up and likes to hang out with her mom and stepdad. She has a soft spot for John Hughes movies and plays guitar for a band called the Fraggin Aardvarks. She wasn't able to attend college and instead, after high school, worked as an attendant at a group home for the severely disabled, earning $12,000 a year.

The big difference is that, in the past two years, Hocking has become a shooting star of the e-publishing world and managed to earn herself $4 million dollars in the process. "Switched," number one of Hocking's "Trylle Trilogy," is the first of her novels to be released by a publishing house (St. Martin's snapped her up with a $2 million dollar contract last year) and came out this week with an initial print run of 250,000. The trilogy has already sold a million copies in e-book format.

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2012 New Years Resolutions

Live life fully and abundantly this year! Check out this list by ChristianityToday.com...

1. I will wear swim fins to the mall and act like everything's perfectly normal.
2. I will attempt to play an accordion while standing on one foot.
3. I will hand out large quantities of bubble gum to several of my friends and challenge them to a bubble-blowing contest.
4. I will spin in circles until I fall down.
5. I will jump rope with my younger sibs (or with a little kid from my neighborhood).
6. I will spend an afternoon in the children's department of my local library reading books I loved as a kid.
7. I will watch a cartoon show that used to be my absolute favorite.
8. I will show up at a party with a gallon of ice cream, whipped cream, chocolate syrup and sprinkles, and announce, "Sundaes for everybody!"

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25 Companies Where Women Shine

Here are 25 companies where women shine – either because they are run by a stellar, intelligent woman, or they’re great places for women to work, or they’re companies whose products or services make the lives of women better, or they boast an extremely high percentage of women employed there. Check out the following 25 companies and feel free to add more deserving companies to this list! READ THE FULL LIST