Do you hate your body?  Do you avoid looking in the mirror for fear of what you'll see?  Well Kelly Park and Carson Kressley of Lifetime Television's "How To Look Good Naked" may be able to help.  And without liposuction, facelifts, butt lifts or tummy tucks. As part of BlogHer's "Letter To My Body" campaign which tries to help women improve their body image, I'm going to have the pleasure of doing a podcast interview with Kelly Park who starred in the premiere of this season's "How To Look Good Naked."

This is the problem with going to BlogHer--it's like exercise. It makes you all healthy and energized. You come home and your thoughts feel cleansed as if they've just done a round of cardio and finished off the workout with a glass of carrot juice.

My friend Alex Elliot and I are soliciting stories for an anthology of stories about what happened when you first began menstruating. Stories can be funny, poignant, hair-raising, or whatever best captures what it was like when you first got your period, bought pads by yourself at the drug store, or tried putting in a tampon. Guidelines, deadlines, and other lines can be found at Congratulations, You're A Woman Now!.

At this point, it takes a lot to shock me when it comes to using women's naked bodies to sell other products. Yet back in late April, I ripped an ad for Cabana Cachaha Brazilian rum out of the May 5 issue of New York Magazine. The black and white print ad featured a super slim, utterly hairless, totally naked-sans-a-thong-tan -line-and-stilettos woman on lifting her perfect nude ass in the air and arching her back. In small print at the bottom, viewers were promised uncensored photos, footage, and more online. Curious, I headed over, but it wasn't up and running.

Have you seen the article in Glamour about the 11 greatest bodies on Earth? Glamour Magazine has a feature this month where they decided that since we will be watching the Olympics for the rest of the Summer they would focus on eleven women athletes (that are in the Olympics) who possess the "greatest bodies on Earth".

I've been doing pretty good on my...Not really a diet, diet. Basically, I have lost most of the weight I had gained since last year's BlogHer conference. It's really amazing how easy it is to gain twenty pounds when you're not looking. I blame it on the whole love/hate relationship with my scale thing. Anyway, now I am faced with a dilemma...To diet, or not to diet, at the BlogHer conference?