Kim Kardashian Naked Selfie During Pregnancy

The 34-year-old reality star is currently expecting her second child with husband Kanye West. But after speculation arose that she was actually using a surrogate and her bump was fake, Kim did the only thing she knew how to shut down the speculation once and for all.

"First they say I'm too skinny so I have to be faking it...Now they say I'm too big so I have to be faking it...SMH! Some days I'm photographed before I eat & look smaller, some days I've just eaten & I look bigger. It's all a part of the process," she wrote on Instagram alongside the photograph of her posing nude. "I think you all know me well enough to know I would document the process if I got a surrogate. Everyone's body is different, every pregnancy is very different! (sic)"

Kim has faced increasingly harsh criticism over her shape after her bump looks different sizes in various paparazzi photographs. But making use of her own camera, the star posed in her bathroom with just her arm covering her breasts and her leg bent to cover her lower half. Standing side on, her bump was clear for all to see and Kim added that it's only going to get bigger.

"I've learned to love my body at every stage! I'm going to get even bigger & that's beautiful too! I'm blessed to even be pregnant & even luckier to not have preeclampsia as far as I know, so I don't have the swelling issue this time!" she continued. "They also say your body carries a boy different than a girl! Whatever the case may be I'm grateful to God for this miracle & no matter what rumors or comments you throw my way this time they truly don't affect me! #NoFilter #NoPhotoShop #GoodLighting. (sic)"

Size 22 Model Tess Holliday Says Fatkinis Make Her Feel Sexy

"When I’m buying a swimsuit the thing that is most important to me is how I feel in it, if I feel good," Tess Holliday said on the set of her shoot for new plus-sizeswimwear collection Sea by Monif C. “It’s great to buy something that may look cute but I want to buy something that makes me feel sexy and I want to feel confident when I’m going out and I want people to stare so you know I want good support, I want fun prints.” The line, which was started byMonif Clarke, a size 16 herself, does exactly that. 

Clarke started her line 10 years ago because as a 20-something she couldn’t find clothes, let alone bathing suits, that weren’t shapeless sacks in blacks, grays, or browns. Although armed with a degree in math and computer science, she ditched STEM for sartorial when she realized that if she needed to custom make her clothes just to have something cute in her closet, then there must be others, more specifically customers, out there aching for similar styles. “If I design stuff that I love then maybe others will love it too,” Clarke told Yahoo Style. 

Today, the plus size fashion industry looks a lot different. Prints, bright colors, cut outs, unique and flattering shapes are all available. But while plus size offerings have certainly changed, the perceptions surrounding it aren’t as quick to catch up. And Clarke, a pioneer in promulgating the idea that women of all sizes are beautiful and providing the items to match, has, admittedly, not made enough strides to feature different body types in her campaigns — until now.

"We’ve always featured size 14 plus models," Clarke said, "But, we thought, ‘How do we make this more compelling for our customer?’ The feedback we were getting was, ‘We love that you show women in size 14 and 18 but what about the 22s and 24s?’" So that’s where Holliday comes in. The first model of her size and height — she’s  5’5”, weighs 260 pounds, and wears a size 22 — Clarke thought she’d be the perfect fit to feature in the swim campaign. Not only does she represent the slightly different size and body type Monif C. was looking to feature, but her #effyourbeautystandards movement also closely ideologically corresponds with what company tries to achieve. 

"I love that the swimwear is designed by an actual plus size woman. Not only does [Clarke] know what we need but she also gives us the sexy factor that’s totally lacking in swimwear," ‘Holliday said. "She gets that we don’t need to hide our bodies or feel bad for the way we look yet she makes swimwear that helps us embrace our size and look good." The 29-year-old, who is notorious for wearing shapewear underneath her bathing suits, has ditched the slimming under-layer and embraced her body. But self-acceptance also comes from external factors making one feel confident, and, as Holliday points out, the Sea by Monif C. line is made specifically for women sizes 14 to 24 and therefore features include boning, tummy tuck lining, underwire, and high-waisted two-pieces. When you look good, you feel good, Clarke notes. She adds: “There’s no reason that plus-size women can’t be just as sexy or as fashionable as our smaller counterparts.”

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Ronda Rousey is never going to fight a man, so please STOP

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Celebrate Ronda Rousey for her greatness and don't bring up this ridiculous and demeaning notion that she should fight a man. (Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports)

An online sports book set odds at 25-1 that Ronda Rousey would fight a man in a UFC sanctioned event by Dec. 31, 2016. Bovada could have set the number at 100 million to 1, because it's never going to happen.

Not now.

Not ever.

It's beyond ridiculous and is highly disrespectful to Rousey, the wonderfully talented UFC women's bantamweight champion. What Rousey is doing is remarkable, and should be celebrated. She's 11-0 with 11 finishes and has won her last two fights in a combined 30 seconds.

It's one of the most dominant runs in sports history by any athlete in any sport, male or female.

Three times in UFC history have there been championship fights between two unbeaten fighters. Rousey was involved in two of the three, and won those fights in a combined one minute, 20 seconds. She defeated Sara McMann, who was 7-0 entering their bout at UFC 170, in just 1:06. And then last week, she needed only 14 seconds to submit Cat Zingano in the main event of UFC 184.

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UFC announcer Joe Rogan. (Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports)

Beating a fighter like Zingano in 14 seconds is kind of like Tiger Woods winning the 2000 U.S. Open by 15 shots. Or Secretariat winning the 1973 Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths. Or the Chicago Bears defeating the Washington Redskins 73-0 in the 1940 NFL Championship game.

This is an incredibly amazing run she's on, one rarely seen in sports. It's a disgrace that instead of celebrating Rousey's historic accomplishments, we're debating whether or not she could defeat men.

UFC analyst Joe Rogan unintentionally got the controversy rolling when he said during an appearance on The Dan LeBatard Show on Feb. 26 that Rousey could beat 50 percent of the male bantamweights in the UFC.

He said it as a means to try to express Rousey's greatness, because it's easy to run out of superlatives to describe what she's doing. He wasn't suggesting she would, or should, fight a man.

At one point before her fight with Zingano, UFC president Dana White joked he might have to make Rousey fight men if she beat Zingano easily. Again, White wasn't suggesting that was his plan. He was simply pointing out how dominant she'd been.

But that didn't stop UFC flyweight contender Ian McCall from speaking out about it. McCall took Rogan's comments completely seriously and said that Rousey wouldn't defeat a good male mixed martial arts fighter. He went on to say he'd throw Rousey, a bronze medalist in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

A good man will not lose to Ronda Rousey. I could put a judo gi on, [she's] an Olympian. You're not throwing me. It's not going to happen. I will throw you on your head. Pretty simple. And you weigh more than me. I can't compartmentalize it. It doesn't make sense to me. I know it's all talk. They compare her to [former heavyweight boxer Mike] Tyson. She's dangerous, she's good. I get it, but it's just silly.

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UFC flyweight Ian McCall. (Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports)

McCall completely missed the point and made himself look incredibly small in the process. Rousey is enormously popular and is growing the fan base. People like to witness greatness and what Rousey is doing is not only great for herself, but for all of her peers, male and female.

McCall's words are incredibly demeaning to one of the greatest female athletes in the world. And, of course, he missed the bigger picture because she's only going to grow the sport and make fighters like him more money.

Rousey's mother, the 1984 world judo champion AnnMaria De Mars, was right on the money on Saturday following her daughter's win over Zingano when she blasted the notion of her daughter facing a man.

"That's a stupid idea," De Mars said. "Seriously, that's a stupid idea. I'm as much a feminist as anyone but the fact is that biologically, there's a difference between men and women. Hello. Duh. A woman who is 135 pounds and a man who is 135 pounds are not physically equal."

It's sad she even had to say that because in some ways, it takes attention away from what Rousey has done in the Octagon and focuses attention on something that is utterly ridiculous.

This needs to stop, and now.

Ronda Rousey is one of the most incredible athletes in the world, as well as the most popular in the UFC.

All the talk of her fighting men does is detract from her extraordinary accomplishments in the cage.

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