Virgie Tovar: You Have the Right to Remain Fat

Update: 2018-09-28

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Virgie Tovar is an author, activist and a leading expert and lecturer on fat discrimination and body image. She is the founder of Babecamp, an online course designed to help women who are ready to break with diet culture, and she started the hashtag #LoseHateNotWeight. Virgie talks to Róisín about her manifesto, You Have the Right to Remain Fat, the link between gender and fat shaming and the silent epidemic of women living in fear of food and their bodies.

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Virgie Tovar: You Have the Right to Remain Fat

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Virgie Tovar: You Have the Right to Remain Fat

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Virgie Tovar: You Have the Right to Remain Fat