They said they wanted to keep me from developing health issues as I grew older. The lesson I took from camp was that people will only love you if you're skinny. I was 12 years old, sitting on half-log ...

At 18, I went to a summer camp and met Kat, who was unapologetically confident. I fell for Kat and her confidence, and I realized I'm bisexual. I also eventually realized I could be confident in my ...

China’s viral ‘fat prison’ is actually a voluntary weight-loss boot camp. Run like a military camp, it enforces strict diets, ...

This story is part of our Summer Bodies series, a collection of stories exploring fatness in the summertime heat. In this op-ed, Annette Richmond, who started a body-positive fat camp, explains how it ...

Kids who went to “fat camp” during the summer will regain the pounds they lost unless the parents change the lifestyle of the whole family–and that means Mom and Dad included. Experts in childhood ...

I was chubby when I was a kid, so my parents sent me to fat camp. They said they wanted to keep me from developing health issues as I grew older. The lesson I took from camp was that people will only ...