A little more than a year ago, Taffy Brodesser-Akner wrote a long and heart-wrenching article for the New York Times about her lifelong entanglement with the weight loss industry. “Each time we did the eating exercise, I would cry. ‘‘What is going on for you?’’ the leader would ask. But it was the same answer […]
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I’m one of those people who always gets dressed up to leave the house, but also never wears their cute clothes at home. Since I work from home, I’ve gotten comfortable with the pajama and loungewear lifestyle that comes with never having to go to an office. The flip side of this is that in […]
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The last time I went out to dinner with my parents, we got into what would have been a knock-down drag-out fight except for the fact that we were at a table in a fancy restaurant. It all started when my dad claimed that fat people didn’t have the right to buy nice work pants. […]
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It’s been warm here for a while, but I know that East Coasters are finally getting their first blast of warm air in months. So it’s a great time to talk about full bust and full-figured swimsuits. Because pool weather will be here before you know it (unless you live in New Orleans, where it frequently […]
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One of the longest lasting and most insulting accepted assumptions about the plus-size market is that fat women are cheap. It’s infuriating, both in its underlying assumptions and inferences. Some of this comes from the societal idea that being plus-size is a temporary condition: after all, don’t most diet ads say that we are all […]
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