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‘It’s So Hard to Have a Body in This World’ | Virginia Sole-Smith

‘It’s So Hard to Have a Body in This World’ | Virginia Sole-Smith

Update: 2024-07-301
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Writer Virginia Sole-Smith was a skinny teenager who became a fat adult. She now writes about and personally experiences anti-fat bias on a daily basis, from finding clothes to accessing medical care. On this episode, hear Ricki open up about her own weight journey as she and Virginia talk about how weight discrimination shows up across the fat spectrum, how to let your kids make their own decisions about what they put in their bodies, and whether or not Ricki herself has contributed to fatphobia. Get ready for one of the most open and honest conversations about weight you’ve ever heard.

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Check out Virginia’s books, Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture and The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America

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‘It’s So Hard to Have a Body in This World’ | Virginia Sole-Smith

‘It’s So Hard to Have a Body in This World’ | Virginia Sole-Smith

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