This week for BuzzFeed News, Amanda Shapiro explores the tanned, toned world of competitive bikini bodybuilding. Read that and these other great stories from BuzzFeed and around the web.
Training, Tanning, and Branding with the Bikini Bodybuilding Stars of Instagram — BuzzFeed News
Twenty-six-year-old Ashley Kaltwasser is the reigning world champion of a polarizing new bodybuilding competition that raises questions about attainable female body image while cultivating a massive following on social media. But the LeBron James of #BikiniCompetitor culture doesn’t have the answers – she’s busy trying to make history. Read it at BuzzFeed News.
Photograph by Isaac Hinds
Cicada: Solving the Web's Deepest Mystery — Rolling Stone
A thrilling read by David Kushner about a complex coded online riddle and the teenagers who worked for months to decipher it. "Solving things is kind of addictive...It kind of felt like National Treasure." Read it at Rolling Stone.
Illustration by Sean McCabe for Rolling Stone
'Food is a Death Sentence to These Kids' — The New York Times Magazine
Prader-Willi syndrome is a rare genetic disease that keeps those who have it, like 13-year-old Rachelle Ross-Williams, from being able to feel full, leading to a lifetime of battling the urge to eat at the risk of obesity, illness, and, sometimes, death. Kim Tingley chronicles Rachelle's time in an inpatient facility as her mother tries to keep her alive. Read it at The New York Times Magazine .
Photograph by Stephanie Sinclair for The New York Times
Grounded — Charlotte Magazine
Cheryl Stearns, the greatest female skydiver in history, was closing in on a record 20,000 dives when she was hit by a car while riding her mountain bike last November. Now, Michael Graff learns how she's coping with life on the ground. Read it at Charlotte Magazine .
Photograph by Logan Cyrus for Charlotte Magazine
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