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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 to NOT use the word fat. So now that I use the word fat, then it’s like then every other word is also available because I’m not using them just to kind of, like, NOT use the word fat.

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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 I’m a BBW. I really kind of choke on the BBW thing. I just – I don’t know what it is. It just sounds cheezy to me. It’s like I’m having to say (in a faux pompous voice) “Oh, I’m big, and I’m Beautiful and I’m a Woman!” To me, it just sounds so cheezy rather than just saying “I’m Fat. I’m 5’7″, I’m Fat, I have blond hair. You know, to me it just feels weird to say BBW. It just feels all sorts of cheezy to me.

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