My lovely friend Chiara has written a lovely poem, and the first thing I thought when I read it is that I wanted to share it with you. My last name means “round,” it literally means “round,” and usually what I say is ha ha my ancestors clearly really loved pasta and sometimes I pat […]

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I was browsing through the archives of Fatshionista today and I found a post that made me stop and think. And it made me want to know, as ever, what you guys think! I am a sexy, beautiful, wonderful plus sized chick. There are days, however few (…or many, whatever) when I can’t see that. […]

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I know very little about Mischa Barton, but apparently she’s lost some weight recently and the tabloids have gotten all OMG TOO SKINNY about the whole thing. She responded publicly, and People magazine has the roundup: She notes that she is thinner these days, as recent photos in the media have shown, sometimes accompanied by […]

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Here’s a study from the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved (which may I say I am happy exists) that talks about the link between household instability and obesity—specifically, obesity in mothers. Thirty-eight percent of mothers in low-instability households were obese, while nearly 48 percent in high-instability households were obese. The researchers […]

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congratulations, kate!Originally uploaded by mo pie As if I was going to let the fact that MY GIRLFRIEND KATE WINSLET WON AN OSCAR go unrecognized. When I was waiting for her name to be called, Ian turned to my cousin and her boyfriend and said “Be careful. If Kate doesn’t win, you’re going to see […]

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Hi everyone; I’m back! Sorry for the quiet last week, but I was on a series of vacations and unable to post. I should be back to our regular scheduled programming later today or tomorrow. (Please note the bad grammar in that sentence—I’m still a little tired, I guess!) Thanks for hanging in there!

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And you guys, it is gorgeous. Hooray! via Style Slacker. LOVE is a new, aiming-for-high-profile magazine by Conde Nast, launching in the U.K. on February 19. It is purported to be all about luxury and fashion and fashionable luxury and I don’t really care, because I probably won’t read it. But I love their very […]

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Mary alerted me to the existence of the blog “This Is Why You’re Fat,” which features pictures of extremely unhealthy, often disgusting-looking, food. Some highlights include “Deep Fried Peanut Butter-Covered Brownie Wrapped In Cookie Dough” and “French Fry-Encased Hot Dog On A Stick.” Cripes. The title is unfortunate, conflating unhealthy food with fat people (remember […]

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So, there has been a brouhaha lately because Jessica Simpson wore some crazy pants and OMG is so fat (wow, I had not seen the New York Post cartoon at that link; gross). But mostly this has all stopped being about calling her fat and has turned into a backlash over calling her fat. Alyssa […]

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BFDiva Meredith alerted me to the below “Dear Prudence” video advice column from Slate. In her e-mail, she sums up her outrage nicely: The advice requester explains that he has a fat coworker who eats all the communal chocolate at a meeting, and he wants to say something to the fat man about how his […]

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A reporter named Ashley Pearson followed Madonna’s workout, which is just this side of totally insane: Our plan is this: five weeks, six days per week – one-and-a-half to two hours per day, which is what Madonna and Gwyneth do. We will do 40 minutes of cardio exercise in each session, followed by one-and-a-half hours […]

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I’m addicted to SecretTweet, the Twitter version of Post Secret, where people submit their secrets and they’re posted anonymously. Often there are weight-related ones that come up, and I think of you guys. So I thought I would collect a few here. Some of them are hopeful: My boyfriend weighs three times what I do, […]

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Originally uploaded by mo pie I got an e-mail recently from a plus-size sex worker who keeps a blog called For Lovers of Curves. I’m going to put most of this post behind a cut; although I don’t think it’s super NSFW, you never know! Anyway, her bio is:

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Originally uploaded by mo pie I saw this vintage ad here and was quite struck by it. The ad is from the 1970s, and the headline reads: Tracy Harper may not care if fashionable chubby-sizes are hard to find, but her Mother does. And so does Sears. This headline was the thing that really struck […]

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I’ve spent the last ten days cleaning my house and purging my closets, and I ran across two work-appropriate items that have never been worn and are pretty nice! (They just didn’t fit right and I never managed to return them.) I figured rather than dumping them off at Goodwill, especially in this economy, I’d […]

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I now completely forget who first told me about the Photoshop diet. But with this trifecta of great posts about pictures and bodies collected over at Shapely Prose, it sprang to mind. Before I get to that, though, the trifecta is as follows (and each link is well worth a read): 1. Improving Aphrodite, a […]

Filed under: Celebrities, Fashion, Fat Positive, Fatism, Feminism, Jennifer Aniston, Lindsay Lohan, Madonna, Magazines, Media, Movies, Music, Personal, Photoshop, TV, Weight Loss | 9 Comments »

You may remember my husband Ian from that one time he waved at the camera when I was on The Mike and Juliet Show. But he has his own claim to fame; his macaroni and cheese box collection. I was gone this week (thank you, Jen, for holding down the fort) because I accompanied him […]

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