It was an unremarkable afternoon in the Noughties, and I was working a slow shift at my Saturday job. There I was, behind the tills at Matalan, waiting for my next customer to appear, when I felt it.

I was in the dressing room at American Eagle when the panic set in. I was a junior in high school. All I wanted was to be thin and pretty and well-dressed, and the fact that I was muffin-topping over ...

As a teenager, the coolest thing you could do was to get your belly button pierced. Unfortunately, with a strict Zambian mother, I was forced to skip that edgy phase, and more than a decade on, I find ...

Remember that scene from Freaky Friday when Lindsay Lohan, as her mother, screams, “You pierced your navel?” That sums up the energy around belly button piercings in the early 2000s — accessorized ...