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Rotundities: A Links Roundup

May 6th, 2010

1. Thanks to La Wade for this link: Chelsea Clinton asks her dad to lose 15 pounds before walking her down the aisle. “She doesn’t think I’m in shape to handle it. You know, she told me the other day, she said, ‘Dad the only thing you gotta do is walk me down the aisle [...]

Filed under: Celebrities, Feminism, Humor, Jenfu, Links, Meta, Movies | 3 Comments »

The “Fairy Tale” Of Weight Loss

April 27th, 2010

Our own Jenfu is featured in this article at MSNBC, along with Pasta Queen and a tiny little piece of my hair in Jen’s “before” photo. (Here’s the original photo.) Although it shares a theme with Kate Harding’s The Fantasy of Weight Loss, be aware that the article discusses diets and WLS and has some [...]

Filed under: Celebrities, Diet Talk Warning, Jenfu, Meta, Personal, WLS, Weight Loss | 7 Comments »

Smashing Plus Size Fashion: Shopping Roundup!

February 26th, 2010

Commenter Punchy says, how about a round-up of plus-size fashion options? and we said, hell yes! Let’s do this thing! Fashionable plus-size dressing tends to take more time, energy and creativity, because options are way more limited, and generally you have to hunt through offerings to find what you want and what you need. There’s [...]

Filed under: Fashion, Feel Good Friday, Jenfu | 44 Comments »

Dearest Mabel…

January 5th, 2009

Out of the ashes of the late, lamented Elastic Waist, a phoenix has arisen. A phoenix with one feather that is me! It is a web portal called Dearest Mabel featuring the writing talents of Weetabix, Jen (aka Anne) and Kim from Elastic Waist, as well as me and Jennette. It will feature links to [...]

Filed under: Diet Talk Warning, Jenfu, Meta, Weetabix | 1 Comment »

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