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The billboard in question. (Photo: Carter’s)

Fit4Less gym, based in the U.K., has found itself in the midst of a controversy over one of its billboards this week. The gym’s ad, which features a furry green monster, is making people upset because it specifically mentions “fat” people.

“Tired of being fat & ugly?” the sign asks. “Just be ugly at Fit4Less.” The billboard popped up in the largely rural county of Derbyshire, and some people there are reportedly concerned that it perpetuates negative body-image attitudes. This isn’t Fit4Less’ first experience with outrage over its ads. Months ago, folks were up in arms over another one of its billboards, which featured an alien and a flying saucer, and read, “They’re coming … and when they arrive, they’ll take the FAT ones first!” read more

An advertisement that was banned in the U.K. last year for being harmful.

Every person around the world most likely sees an advertisement promoting a negative body image every day. Although this is just a simple truth, one that’s so common that most people don’t even consciously realize it, London’s new mayor wants to change the status quo.

Sadiq Khan, who was recently elected to the office, swore during his campaign that he would ban all advertisements promoting “unhealthy or unrealistic” body images that “can demean people, particularly women,” the BBC reports. It turns out that he wasn’t just pandering for votes. True to his word, Khan took action and starting next month, all body-shaming ads will be banned from the city’s transportation network. read more

This evening is the seventh and final game of the NBA Finals, where the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers will face off once again for the championship (they played each other last year, and Golden State won).

Tonight in Oakland, Calif., star athletes Stephen Curry and LeBron “The King” James will lead Golden State and Cleveland, respectively, through a series expected to be rife with blood, sweat and tears.  read more

Performers prepare backstage for rehearsals ahead of the First World Conference on Tourism for Development to be held this week in Beijing; two endangered common marmosets grip a finger after being seized from a South Korean smuggler in Goyang, northwest of Seoul, South Korea; and Nepalese devotees pull a giant wooden chariot in a circle to celebrate Rato Machhindranath, the god of rain, during a festival in Lalitpur, near Kathmandu, Nepal. (AP/EPA) read more

She’s done it again. Madeline Stuart, the world’s most famous model with Down syndrome, made her second appearance on a New York Fashion Week (NYFW) runway.