When he’s performing, Joseph Antonio Cartagena is better known by his stage name, Fat Joe, but to his three kids, he’s just “dad.” The rapper became a father for the first time in 1990 with the birth ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Today, we have a greater diversity of bodies represented in the media than in decades past, but we’re still a long way from a ...

Pam Luk always encourages body positivity (or not talking about people’s bodies at all) when talking to her daughter. But when the child was 5 or 6 years old, she turned to Luk and said, “You’re fat!” ...

Comedy writer Ian Karmel spent most of his life making fun of his weight, starting at a very young age. "Being a kid is terrifying — and if you can be the funny fat kid, at least that's a role," ...