According a recent study, overweight women have a decrease in self-esteem when looking at models, regardless of the size of the models, whereas underweight women experience a boost in self-esteem, again regardless of the size of the models (thanks La Wade for the link). We get a LOT of e-mail from PR folks about random [...]

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My friend Michael recently posted a list of the webcomics he reads, and included a comic called Sweet Fat Life. So of course I had to click the link and read some of the archives! I also discovered that there’s a spinoff site called I Love Myself: Big Bodies in Art. If you’re a fan [...]

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Kimberly writes the very excellent, fashion-forward, budget-conscious blog “Fab Finds Under $50,” and recently she tackled a reader’s question: I wear a size 22/24. And because of you I’ve recently developed a love for dresses. Before I would maybe only wear a dress a couple times per year. I’ve just graduated college in May so [...]

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The Merchant’s WifePainted by Boris Kustodiev, 1918 After reading our Miss America post, Jane e-mailed me and mentioned she had her own blog dedicated to “classical pictures of sensual and lovely women with body types that are rarely seen in modern media.” I can relate to this; I took a picture of this picture in [...]

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This week is all videos and Whedonites and internet drama, apparently! Thanks to a spammer (apparently a very effective spammer) following fat chicks or girls who say they’re fat on Twitter, I found this video, called “Fat Girls,” at Funny or Die. Is it a “BBW tribute” as they claim? Or is the “BBW” the [...]

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fat supermanOriginally uploaded by mo pie So I saw this link in my referral logs, to a site that seems to be… Norwegian? Swedish? Finnish? Anyway, whoever they are, they link BFD in their sidebar, so thank you, people of Snorwinnland! Scrolling down the home page, I spotted this entry, with the arresting image of [...]

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SWAK sweaterOriginally uploaded by mo pie A while back, the kind folks at SWAK Designs offered to send me an item of clothing or two to try out (and be brutally honest about, of course). Since I’m always happy to find another source for plus-size fashion in these uncertain times, I said, and I’m paraphrasing [...]

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Just a reminder on this very lovely Friday that you are beautiful, kids. Click on through this gallery of awesome art installations, take the message to heart (because it is a true fact), and have the best kind of weekend.

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Now that Big Love is off the air, those of you lucky people with HBO will need something else to watch to pass the time. Well, as Entertainment Weekly reminded me, this week is the premiere of the TV series version of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series. I can’t wait to hear what [...]

Filed under: Books, Celebrities, Fat Positive, Feel Good Friday, International, Jill Scott, Magazines, Race & Ethnicity, TV, Video | 10 Comments »

Via Marianne; click anywhere to feed the fish. I made them color coordinated with the blog. Heh. Get your own soothing little friends, and more (including a hamster and a stingray) here.

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It is Feel Good Friday and it’s my thirty-fourth birthday today! How perfect, then, that I have two feel-good e-mails to share. Reader Katie forwarded me an e-mail from the wonderful BUST magazine, which featured a little blurb about Big Fat Deal. One thing they said really jumped out at me: The best part of [...]

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I opened The Onion today and laughed when I read this tiny article: MODESTO, CA—Telling friends that she “just ate a huge thing of yogurt four hours ago,” local woman Vanessa Stroud chided herself Tuesday for feeling hunger, a natural urge experienced by all living creatures to ensure they consume the sustenance necessary to maintain [...]

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You probably have already heard that Forever 21 is adding plus sizes to their line; I first heard about it via Kate Harding’s Twitter feed. Kate also wrote about it at her site and covered the main points nicely: The bad news? “Junior plus sizes include XL, 1X and 2X.” Dude, they didn’t even have [...]

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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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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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I don’t know who Alesha Dixon is. I know that she is British, smokingly hot, and according to her extensive and detailed Wikipedia page, she danced her way to fame in the television series Strictly Come Dancing, the show that became Dancing with the Stars in the U.S. She’s also a model, was a singer [...]

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It’s 2009, and the dichotomy between “feminine” and “tough” still exists. Of course, a lot of that is a problem of vocabulary–feminine evokes flowers and sweetness and ruffles and sunshine, and tough evokes rough-and-tumble, down-and-dirty, strong and powerful, and you could argue that it is difficult to slay your enemies in a pinafore while carrying [...]

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Snowed under at work, but had to share this post from onceupon, which struck me as very profound and wonderful today. I don’t talk about my body in terms of flaws. Even if I weren’t into fat/body/size/whatever flavor you call it acceptance, I wouldn’t because to define things in terms of negative qualities is to [...]

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I’ve been feeling a little pessimistic towards government since the whole Prop 8 thing, but my cold black heart has been warmed this morning when I learned that the Canada Supreme Court has ruled that airlines must make additional space available to disabled obese passengers, at no additional charge to them for extra space, so [...]

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Oh, how I wish Youtube hadn’t turned off the embedding on this amazing video (SFW), but you’ve got to watch it because these three girls? Are awesome. And I love them. And now it is my quest in life to be able to do the splits again.

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Fat chicks have more sex than skinny chicks. Sorry, skinny ladies, but it’s science. The story is kind of troubling, though, when you start to look at it up close. The results seem to contradict stereotypes that overweight and obese women have less sex. If anything, the researchers said, the opposite seems to be true. [...]

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I’m out of town this weekend and have been incredibly busy at work, at school, with writing projects, with staring at political polls. So tell me, what did I miss? What awesome posts are out there that I absolutely need to read, that I neglected to post about, that we need to talk about? What [...]

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A fun article on the amazing personal style of America Ferrera (I love that top outfit by Diane von Furstenberg) and how you can totally try to work it yourself, if you have a similar, hourglass body type. Miss. Ferrera has been popping up on more and more “best dressed” lists recently, and it’s no [...]

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Krispy Kreme bacon cheddar cheeseburgersOriginally uploaded by ccaviness Oh my god, Krispy Kreme cheeseburgers! I pondered this for a minute to answer the question asked in the title. I came up with “so wrong it’s right” because I would totally try one of these things. Of course at least one very articulate person in the [...]

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