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50 Best Twitter Feeds for Psychology Majors includes We Are The Real Deal

Jame Oliver Food Revolution, Video on homepage

500 Places To Syndicate Your Content – Health Category, Buzz Blogger

Do you see yourself for real? iVillage Health

Top 50 Blogs For Women’s Rights includes We Are The Real Deal

We Are The Real Deal Founding Contributors Lissa, Marsha, Miz Fit and Yum Yucky speak on the topic Blogs & Body Image: What are we teaching our kids? at Fit Bloggin; 2010

CNN.com interviews Founder of WATRD Heather Blessington, aka mamaV regarding Golden Globes saga as played out in the NYTimes

Dove Self Esteem Fund Sponsors BlogHer 2009

Quoted in BBC, World Have Your Say: Are Ordinary Women Now Fashionable?

New Contributor: Kim Brittingham, personal essayist, blogger, and fat acceptance activist — best known for her “social experiment” involving involving a fake book cover proclaiming that “Fat is Contagious”, which landed her on The Today Show and NPR). Her first book, a memoir titled “Read My Hips”, is coming in 2010 from Harmony Books. Read more about Kim

Claire Mysko launches new book: Does this pregnancy make me look fat?

New Contributor Miss Lori, best known for her role as host of PBS Kids, and popular blogger and mother of 4, Yum Yucky join us. Both bloggers add their unique perspective of body image as African American women.Read more on Miss Lori and Yum Yucky bio pages.

SITE LAUNCH

TOP BLOGGERS UNITE TO LAUNCH “WEARETHEREALDEAL.COM”, A NEW ONLINE
SPACE FOR WOMEN TO GET REAL ABOUT BODY IMAGE ISSUES

New York, NY (July 22, 2009) What happens when five acclaimed body image writers come
together with the common goal of turning talk into action? You get a unique, irreverent blog that
shares opinions and sparks debate on everything from fitness and beauty to dieting and size
acceptance. You get honest answers and even more thought-provoking questions.
You get WEARETHEREADEAL.COM.
Founder Heather Blessington (mamaVISION.com) and contributors Carla Birnberg
(MizFitOnline.com), Kate Harding (kateharding.net), Claire Mysko (clairemysko.com), and
Veronica Noone (ronisweigh.com) have each built loyal audiences who are passionate about
many aspects of body image, including weight loss, eating disorders, fat acceptance, nutrition,
fitness, media/fashion influence, pregnancy, and parenting.
WEARETHEREALDEAL.COM is the first blog to bring those diverse voices together in an open
dialogue. The contributors might not agree on every issue, but they are united in their
commitment to help readers take steps toward healthy self-esteem and positive body image in
their “offline” lives.

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