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Chrissy Widmayer: More than Just Fat (3)

Chrissy Widmayer gives us this well-done video submission which explains how she is more than meets the eye.
 

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Melody Rossiter: Mouthy Fat Kid Does OK (6)

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 [...]

Deb Malkin: The Word Fat. (0)

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 [...]

Emily Anson: I’m Still Angry (But I’m Getting There) (9)

I’m still angry. My anger, while not integral to my new identity as a promoter of size acceptance, helps to drive me. I have to admit it. I’m pissed off.
It’s been a journey for me to get here, and a non-linear one at that. When I was a young fat teenager, desperately trying to escape [...]

Stacy Bias: Taking Back the Body (10)

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 [...]

Stacy Bias: The Shame Was More Important than Living (0)

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 [...]