November 23rd, 2009
Continuing the “we here at major women’s fashion magazines care about fat people and their happiness!” trend, Marie Claire, major women’s fashion magazine, has started a once-a-month column by Ashley Falcon, Plus-Size Stylist. Hooray! Quick, do not notice that her columns appear next to their regular “From Fat to Fit” series. Or maybe that’s just […]
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November 13th, 2009
Are you feeling down, low, sad, lonely, lacking in happiness and needing a tiny little boost to get you through that last patch of Friday and boost you into the weekend? Are you feeling cynical, hateful, sure that the world is bigoted and there are no positive, body-friendly messages left on earth and that everyone […]
Filed under: Advocacy, Art, Celebrities, Fashion, Fat Positive, Feel Good Friday, Feminism, International, Magazines, Media, NSFW, Video | 37 Comments »
November 4th, 2009
Back in August, the big news was the Woman on Page 194 of Glamour magazine–Lizzie Miller and her beautiful belly and her regular thighs, looking gorgeous. It sparked a lot of talk all over the internet–Glamour loves you just the way you are, and Glamour is starting a revolution, and Glamour is just paying lipservice […]
Filed under: Advocacy, Celebrities, Crystal Renn, Fashion, Fat Positive, Magazines, Media | 29 Comments »
October 26th, 2009
Oh my GOD, Ralph Lauren! Keep your Photoshop brushes in your pants! What is wrong with you people? Earlier this month, an insane Ralph Lauren ad appeared, in which their long-time model Filippa Hamilton was photoshopped into a creepy, unrecognizable insectile creature from outer space. Hamilton was reportedly horrified by the image, and said “I […]
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October 22nd, 2009
Speaking of feeling confident in our bodies, have you guys heard about National Fat Talk Free Week? We’re actually two days into it, now–it started on October 19, and appears to end on October 23rd, after which, presumably, we can all go back to shit-talking our asses and blaming all our flaws and unhappinesses on […]
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September 23rd, 2009
Jennifer Love Hewitt is on the cover of Shape magazine in a bikini, looking perfect(ly photoshopped), with “My weight-loss trick!” next to her in big letters. Crazy Days and Nights has the story, and I’m just going to post it all: Although there will be some trashing of Jennifer Love Hewitt in this post, my […]
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September 13th, 2009
In case you missed it, Rachel had a fabulous overview of the recent coverage of fat discrimination at Newsweek, including an article called America’s War on the Overweight: The bubbling rage against fat people in America has put researchers like Levine in a difficult position. On the one hand, she says, she wants to ensure […]
Filed under: Advocacy, Exercise, Fat Positive, Fatism, Health, Magazines, Media | 4 Comments »
August 26th, 2009
You’ve undoubtedly seen or heard of Lizzi Miller’s stomach this week. It was on the sofa with Matt Lauer on Monday (embedded after the cut and worth watching just because Lauer comes thisclose to crying shenanigans on Glamour editor Cindi Lieve’s promise to show more chub in her glossy), hitting CNN, got a mention in […]
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August 14th, 2009
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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August 11th, 2009
I’m writing this post in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, after a long and taxing Monday that those of you who follow me on Twitter are sick of hearing about, I’m sure. So my brain is broken, and instead of a real post, I give you… the five Google Alert e-mails that I clicked […]
Filed under: Celebrities, Exercise, Fatism, Humor, International, Links, Magazines, Ricky Gervais, Science, Sex & Romance, Tidbit, Weight Loss | 13 Comments »
August 7th, 2009
So Kelly Clarkson has been photoshopped again, this time on the cover of SELF. From Jezebel: On the new cover…the editors did everything they could to obscure what her body actually looks like. Her right arm is totally invisible and much of her left arm has been cropped out. A yellow dot strategically obscures the […]
Filed under: American Idol, Celebrities, Kelly Clarkson, Magazines, Photoshop | 11 Comments »
July 31st, 2009
From Elizabeth Kolbert in The New Yorker comes a comprehensive article attempting to determine the cause of increased obesity in America. She talks about portion sizes: In the early nineteen-sixties, a man named David Wallerstein was running a chain of movie theatres in the Midwest and wondering how to boost popcorn sales. Wallerstein had already […]
Filed under: Fatism, Health, Magazines, Media, Question, Science | 18 Comments »
June 25th, 2009
Nia Vardalos, star of My Big Fat Greek Wedding who is married to Ian Gomez from Felicity, talks about “fatist” Hollywood (bolding mine): On the publicity tour of My Big Fat Greek Wedding I was asked over and over again, if, as the writer, I felt it was a fair depiction of real life to […]
Filed under: Celebrities, Feminism, Gossip, Magazines, Media, Movies, Seth Rogan, TV, Weight Loss | 18 Comments »
June 23rd, 2009
ugly girlfriend adsOriginally uploaded by mo pie BFD reader Kellie alerted us to a series of ads from Bacardi, which suggests that the perfect accessory for summer is an “ugly girlfriend.” As Kellie pointed out, “ugly” seems to be synonymous with plus-sized; of five girls pictured, three are plus-sized. AgencySpy talked about the text of […]
Filed under: Advertising, Fatism, Feminism, International, Magazines, Media, Sex & Romance | 23 Comments »
June 4th, 2009
While I was off hiatusing, Kirstie Alley was on the cover of People magazine talking about how she had
Filed under: Advocacy, Celebrities, Cold Hard Cash, Food, Gossip, Humor, Kirstie Alley, Magazines, Media, TV, Weight Loss | 19 Comments »
May 19th, 2009
Does anyone remember BBW Magazine? The founder, Carole Shaw, coined the term “BBW’ back in 1979, meant to be an attempt at fat pride (although one could argue that the message was hidden behind an acronym, much like the models inside said magazine hid behind tunics and drapey jackets) but has been taken over as […]
Filed under: Feminism, Magazines, NSFW | 34 Comments »
May 19th, 2009
I want beautiful, healthy women of all sizes to be represented in fashion; I want magazines to show women who are so-called “average” and “normal” (size 12-14), and I want magazines to show plus-size ladies all up and down the range of body types and sizes. I get angry when I see only size zeros […]
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April 2nd, 2009
According to Gawker, that is. (Follow that link to see the pictures, as well as Ditto on the cover of The Enquirer‘s “Best and Worst Beach Bodies” issue. Stay classy, The Enquirer.) But they didn’t say why she was unhappy, or point to a source! Google searches turned up a whole lot of nothing, but […]
Filed under: Beth Ditto, Celebrities, Magazines, Music, Tidbit | 11 Comments »
April 2nd, 2009
The Zaftig Thespian, Jen Ponton, has a fabulous interview up at Plus Model Magazine, about being a fat actress. And not the self-loathing, Jenny Craig joining, Kirstie Alley kind, either. Jennifer Jonassen: Any dream roles? Jen Ponton: My dream role? I have the soul of a leading lady, not a sidekick–so a dream role ?(that […]
Filed under: Advocacy, Art, Celebrities, Fat Positive, Kirstie Alley, Magazines, Movies, Theater, Tidbit, TV | 5 Comments »
March 27th, 2009
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 »
March 19th, 2009
Teghan sent along this link to an article on AskMen.com (and believe me, I feel gross about even giving them attention). It’s a list of “Top 10 Subtle Ways To Tell Her She’s Getting Fat.” Well already, it’s a charming list. Feel free to spare yourself the pain to your eyeballs, since I will tell […]
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March 13th, 2009
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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March 12th, 2009
Remember when I got all indignant that Jennifer Hudson’s album cover had been photoshopped? And like two posts ago when I said Kelly Clarkson was hot? I think you see where I’m going with this. Kelly Kelly Kelly KellyOriginally uploaded by mo pie But not only did they photoshop the album cover, she doesn’t mind. […]
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March 11th, 2009
Just for the record, I love the Obamas. I couldn’t be more overjoyed that Barack Obama is our president, and I want him to be president forever. Everything he does and says makes me happy. At home, we play a drinking game: whenever someone says “President Obama,” take a drink. Only we don’t drink, we […]
Filed under: Advocacy, Celebrities, F.A.T. Chance, Fat Positive, Feminism, Health, Kids, Magazines, Politics, Tidbit, TV | 25 Comments »
March 10th, 2009
Originally uploaded by mo pie Very recently, I posted about an old-timey ad from the 1970s; here is another one, this time from 1957! Here is the ad copy: If your favorite little girl is on the plump side, dress her in Chubbettes and see her blossom into a lovely lass—as happy and self-assured as […]
Filed under: Advertising, Fashion, Kids, Magazines, Old Timey | 23 Comments »
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