Fat Girl Walking
Sex, Food, Love, and Being Comfortable in Your Skin... Every Inch of It
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4.6 • 16 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Told through a series of larger-than-life snapshots, a hilarious memoir in essays about love, sex, marriage, motherhood, bikinis, and loving your body, no matter what size you are from the acclaimed blogger and body image advocate.
Brittany Gibbons has been a plus size her whole life. But instead of hiding herself in the shadows of thinner women, Brittany became a wildly popular blogger and national spokesmodel—known for stripping on stage at TedX and standing in Times Square in a bikini on national television, and making skinny people everywhere uncomfortable.
Talking honestly about size and body image on her popular blog, brittanyherself.com, she has ignited a national conversation. Now in her first book, she shares hilarious and painfully true stories about her life as a weird overweight girl growing up in rural Ohio, struggling with dating and relationships, giving the middle finger to dieting, finding love with a man smaller than her, accidentally having three kids, and figuring out the secret to loving her curves and becoming a nationally recognized body image advocate. And there’s sex, lots of it!
Fat Girl Walking isn’t a diet book. It isn’t one of those former fat people memoirs about how someone battled, and won, in the fight against fat. Brittany doesn’t lose all the weight and reveal the happy, skinny girl that’s been hiding inside her. Instead, she reminds us that being chubby doesn’t mean you’ll end up alone, unhappy, or the subject of a cable medical show. What’s important is learning to love your shape. With her infectious humor and soul-baring honesty, Fat Girl Walking reveals a life full of the same heartbreak, joy, oddity, awkwardness, and wonder as anyone else’s. Just with better snacks.
Customer Reviews
Brilliant and real
I felt like I was reading my own thoughts, fears, emotions, rationalizations... Brittany is every woman who has ever struggled with her physical image. So basically, she's every woman, ever. It's real and sweary and funny and honest and naked (pun intended). I loved it and can't wait for more.
Beautiful, Funny, Right on the mark.
This book is easy to read, and hard to read for all the right reasons. I hoarded it so I wouldn't be done too fast and still finished in three days. She is painfully honest in a way that makes you brave just for reading it. And by brave I mean "wow if she can say that maybe I can feel like that too!" Not because it's a scary book.
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