Are fat people allowed to love themselves yet?
The hard message about fat for hundreds of years in the west is that if you have it you're lazy, uneducated, slow, greedy, and attractive.
This messaging doesn’t just make fat women hate their bodies, it makes thin women hate microscopic parts of their bodies too.
What’s the cost of forever trying to be a shape we’ve been told is the only loveable shape to be?
My guest today is Andrea Westbrook, a size inclusion coach, who came ready to unpack our deeply held beliefs about our bodies - and our judgments about others’ bodies too.
We get into:
Why we believe what we believe about fat and fat people
The emotional and financial cost of carrying the weight of judgement
Why your body is nobody’s business
The not so convenient truths about why people are different shapes
If you’ve ever felt like you needed to slim down for an event, or squeeze into clothes that don’t fit, or see skinny people getting promoted past you at work, come and have a cuppa with us.
Andrea can be found spreading joy in the following places: