Jessica F. Saunders PhD
@jfsaunders.bsky.social
Feminist trained developmental scientist. Body image, weight stigma, and eating disorder recovery research. Project manager @ Brigham & Women’s Hospital
✨ New Research Spotlight ✨
How do celebrity bodies shape the way young Black and Hispanic women see themselves?
Our recent study in Feminist Media Studies dug into this question by analyzing how women ages 18–29 describe the celebrity bodies they admire. The findings were powerful:
How do celebrity bodies shape the way young Black and Hispanic women see themselves?
Our recent study in Feminist Media Studies dug into this question by analyzing how women ages 18–29 describe the celebrity bodies they admire. The findings were powerful:
November 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
✨ New Research Spotlight ✨
How do celebrity bodies shape the way young Black and Hispanic women see themselves?
Our recent study in Feminist Media Studies dug into this question by analyzing how women ages 18–29 describe the celebrity bodies they admire. The findings were powerful:
How do celebrity bodies shape the way young Black and Hispanic women see themselves?
Our recent study in Feminist Media Studies dug into this question by analyzing how women ages 18–29 describe the celebrity bodies they admire. The findings were powerful:
My 20 month old was “reading” the intro to human development book I teach with before bed tonight, enthralled by the pictures of other toddlers in the early childhood chapter and all I could think was “at least someone is doing the assigned reading”
August 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
My 20 month old was “reading” the intro to human development book I teach with before bed tonight, enthralled by the pictures of other toddlers in the early childhood chapter and all I could think was “at least someone is doing the assigned reading”
In press today! We interviewed women in ED recovery on the role nature played and continues to olay on their recovery process, drawing from Piran’s theory of developmental embodiment www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
“It helps me to be more aware and connected to my body when I spent so many years trying to disconnect”: A qualitative pilot study on the impact of time spent in nature on eating disorder recovery
Eating disorders have high relapse and mortality rates, complex treatment needs, and disproportionately affect women. A common characteristic of women…
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August 7, 2025 at 11:21 PM
In press today! We interviewed women in ED recovery on the role nature played and continues to olay on their recovery process, drawing from Piran’s theory of developmental embodiment www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
My newly one year old screamed when she had to sit on the scale today at her 12mo well visit. Glad to see her rejection of diet culture and BMI as a health metric has started already 😂
December 23, 2024 at 4:31 PM
My newly one year old screamed when she had to sit on the scale today at her 12mo well visit. Glad to see her rejection of diet culture and BMI as a health metric has started already 😂
It has been a quiet year pub-wise (maternity leave and position switch), but I am proud to have gotten these 2024 weight stigma and body image papers into the world:
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Current trends and future directions in internalized weight stigma research: a scoping review and synthesis of the literature - Journal of Eating Disorders
Background Since the first papers focused on internalized weight stigma were published in the mid 2000’s, the literature has grown into a robust field that complements existing knowledge on weight sti...
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November 25, 2024 at 11:18 AM
It has been a quiet year pub-wise (maternity leave and position switch), but I am proud to have gotten these 2024 weight stigma and body image papers into the world:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A meta analysis I have been working on for FOUR YEARS (and three updated database searches later) with nearly 300 studies and 400 effect sizes is finally under review. Someone please stop me before I undertake something like this again
December 1, 2023 at 10:38 PM
A meta analysis I have been working on for FOUR YEARS (and three updated database searches later) with nearly 300 studies and 400 effect sizes is finally under review. Someone please stop me before I undertake something like this again