People are still letting MeMe Roth say things on TV, whereupon fat people say things back. Ah, memories. Thanks to Rosemary in the comments and KMc in e-mail for reminding us that the Nightline piece is on tonight! From plus-size to big boned, pleasantly plump to succulently shapely, and Rubenesque to curvy, no matter how […]

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I’m sorry I haven’t posted anything since last Friday (it’s been a crazy week), but here’s a follow up that I was happy to read this morning: So Carolyn, about an hour after your chat last week I called up my nasty bridezilla friend (the one who dropped another bridesmaid for being too fat) and […]

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So the first part of this story isn’t so much Feel Good Friday fodder. A bride has apparently dropped one of her bridesmaids for being too fat, according to a letter sent to advice columnist Carolyn Hax. The feel good part is that the letter-writer is one of the other bridesmaids, who is so appalled […]

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At least according to OK! Magazine, which grabbed a photo of her, photoshopped all the baby weight off her, and slapped it on the cover with a headline reading “MY DIET SECRETS: LOSE 10 LBS IN 10 DAYS.” Must be seen to be believed.

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A fascinating article in the Boston Globe, called Fattened by Pills, discusses the often-unspoken correlation between taking antidepressants and gaining weight: Many [psychiatric drugs], which are used to treat emotional problems including depression and anxiety, cause weight gain — often of the rapid and massive sort — as one of their “side effects,” that brilliant […]

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The health risks of obesity may be exaggerated by (or in part caused by) the discrimination of health care professionals. Particularly, of course, when their patients are women. I’ll quote at length; the article really speaks for itself. (Shoutout to Suzy Smith, my Facebook friend, who is mentioned in the article.) Recent studies have found, […]

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And I’m going to be spending it with the fam. Feel free to use this as an open thread if there’s anything we should all know about or if you need to vent because your family makes you feel guilty about how much you weigh. (Oh, is that just me? Nevermind.) (Now I feel bad […]

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Passive Aggressive Notes is a website that features… um… passive aggressive notes. This one was received by a group of three diners who out were having lunch, and were passed a note by a woman at the next table, who signed her name Angela. You can read the whole note at the site, but here […]

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I realized the other day while purchasing yet another sweater with horizontal stripes that I actually have a lot of clothes that have stripes on them. For a long time that was a big fashion no-no in my brain, because STRIPES = FAT = OMG! = AAH! But then I stopped worrying about it. My […]

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I was working on a post recently that involved some kind of pun about plus-sized paper dolls, and then I wondered if there were any plus-sized paper dolls, and then found this link. Download both the dolls and their outfits from this site, and enjoy!

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Dawn French thinks so. “It is no more acceptable to make a fat joke than it is to make a gay joke… People need to learn to take everyone as they are.” What comedians can joke about is an increasingly treacherous minefield. Rowan Atkinson campaigned against proposed laws targeting “incitement to religious hatred” because he […]

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We’ve totally been talking about Etsy as a plus-size resource for ages and ages (up to and including bad-ass bikinis), and the site continues to not disappoint. I mean, seriously. Via the incredibly cool Deena of Fat Girls Like Nice Clothes Too, who is fabulous and upon whom I have a crush, comes this absolutely […]

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vending machine conceptOriginally uploaded by mo pie What is this, you ask? Well, it’s a concept for a vending machine selling diet soda–in this case, Coca-Cola Light, which is the European name for Diet Coke. The vending machine doubles as a funhouse-style mirror that makes you look thinner. As the creative brief says: Because of […]

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It really works! In fact, this is a blind item via Gawker: “Which dieting model shunned the LFW after party buffet table, instead opting for her own bespoke gourmet feast – crushed horse tranquilizer washed down with a litre of diet coke? She swears it quick fires her metabolism. Your extra clue: We wonder if […]

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This is so cool: a collection of antique photographs of beauty queens, sent in by BFDiva and tipster extraordinaire Jez, who says: I stumbled upon this collection of antique beauty queen photographs. Unfortunately, they do not date them, but I would guess around the late 1920s based on their hair and makeup. I thought it […]

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Not to beat a dead horse, but Jelly’s response is up, and it’s really great (and exhaustive, and worth reading). When dealing with a painful, volatile subject you can be guaranteed that I won’t be the last one to leave a comment that gets your hackles up. Part of the ‘beauty’ of patriarchy and objectification […]

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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 […]

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donut necklaceOriginally uploaded by mo pie It’s belated Feel Good Friday! Artist Joy Kampia has crotcheted things like this donut necklace and a hamburger dress and an ice cream sundae dress that are just fun to look at. A celebration of “bad” foods if I ever saw one. How fun! Via Jezebel.

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Courtesy of my friend dogofthefuture comes… well… no commentOriginally uploaded by mo pie I think Wendy might have something to say about this.

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On this list of 10 Dumbest iPhone Apps is something called FatBurner2k: It’s a good thing Apple put this app in the “Entertainment” category. Otherwise one might be tempted to take seriously the claim that it can “help your body consume fat molecules using disharmonic, molecule to molecule, physical oscillations.” Translation: It vibrates on your […]

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From NPR: 1. The person who dreamed up the BMI said explicitly that it could not and should not be used to indicate the level of fatness in an individual. The BMI was introduced in the early 19th century by a Belgian named Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet. He was a mathematician, not a physician. He […]

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In a “Perspective” a radio piece for KQED public radio, Lisa Lyon compares the effects of driving a new car to the effects of losing a lot of weight: people treat you differently depending on how you look and what you drive. Big surprise. But I was most interested in the car talk; it made […]

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Kate wrote a piece for Powell‘s about fat characters in literature. I love fat people and literature! And I read it with great interest: Truly fat women in books and movies are most often villains, mammies, overbearing mothers-in-law, or unlikable tertiary characters (think the irritable secretary with a box of donuts in her desk drawer). […]

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Sundry: Blogher’s Discovery Health ads chirpily plug a show called “Obese and Pregnant”, wherein birth is described as “physically and emotionally treacherous”. This seems like … an odd way to promote the show. fonticulus (who has a blog here): Wow. I am obese and having a textbook pregnancy. It hasn’t been treacherous at all. Though […]

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Big fat thanks to Jenfu and Weetabix for picking up the slack during my unexpected and extended hiatus. Regular posting will resume soon, I promise! In the meantime, I’ve been dipping back into the Fatosphere feed and loved The Rotund’s post this morning about getting used to seeing your body from many different angles. An […]

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