Stacy Bias: Taking Back the Body

So today was a highly over-sensitive day for me. Actually, it’s kind of been a sensitive week.
Something my partner said unwittingly (and unintentionally) last week really triggered me. I’m nearly always only a hair’s breath away from an emotional crisis around my fitness level these days, so it doesn’t take much to push me [...]

Abby Niederhauser Likes Being Fat!

Abby Niederhauser sent us this well-done, celebratory video that highlights experience of loving herself, being pressured into questioning her love of herself, and then ultimately loving herself again.
 

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Deb Malkin: The Word Fat.

Deb Malkin speaks on her language of self-definition.
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I definitely am comfortable with the word fat. I mean, it’s part of the language that my community uses. And I like the words like curvy. I like the words are attractive, like Zaftig. But I don’t like them in the sense that…when they’re used as euphemisms [...]

Stacy Bias: The Shame Was More Important than Living

Stacy Bias speaks on childhood, compulsion, shame and the hierarchy of worth.
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My mom and dad were both big. My dad was about 6′4″, 350lbs, maybe even more than that, I don’t know. He was a very stocky guy, very Burly — his arms were just MASSIVE, his forearms. And he had a belly on [...]

Melody Rossiter: Mouthy Fat Kid Does OK

My mother came from anorexic stock. When I started getting fat at age 8, she was confused and concerned, and put me on strict diets. I ate my vegetables, we never ate out, I played outside weather permitting and got plenty of exercise. Still, I got fatter and fatter. I found out much later in [...]

Agnes Day on Disordered Eating, Shame and Coping

In fifth grade, I had my First Crush On A Boy. His name was Ross. He was tall, with gorgeous green eyes, and he was so sophisticated that he wore cologne to school. Aramis. He agreed to be my boyfriend for one day, but we had to keep it a secret. When I [...]

Stacy Bias on Comfort and Comfort-Seeking

Stacy Bias speaks about comfort, shame and the roots of compulsion.
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Passions and Interests…Wow, that is an open-ended question, isn’t it? I’m passionate about people, like, my friends, my family, myself — like, life lessons. I’m really passionate about learning. Not necessarily academic learning, but spiritual learning; self-betterment. Music, art, the Internet (I’m such a [...]

Liv McClelland - Fat Vs. BBW

Liv McClelland talks about the language she uses to describe her body.
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Interviewer: Do you describe yourself as fat, or what language do you use to describe yourself?
Liv: I think moreso now I say fat. Like, I put a personal ad on Craigslist.org and that’s how I described myself. I don’t say [...]

Liv McClelland - Fat in the Family

Liv McClelland talks about fat and family.
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We have a lot of fatties in my family. My mom is fat. My mom kind of fluctuates between a size 12 and a size 20. She just kind of fluctuates in between there, depending upon what’s going on in her life. My dad actually has now got [...]

Why We Exist

When I was 26, I made a fat friend; we’ll call her FF. Previous to meeting FF, I had often kept a distance from people my size. I judged myself harshly and those judgments spilled over to my interactions with anyone who reminded me of my own perceived shortcomings. FF was charming, intelligent, hilarious [...]