Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls (32 page)

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Books to Read:

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1.
Â Â
An Unapologetic Fat Girl's Guide to Exercise
, by Hanne Blank

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2.
Â Â
The Beauty Myth
, by Naomi Wolf

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3.
Â Â
Big Big Love
, by Hanne Blank

Â Â
4.
Â Â
Body Respect
, by Linda Bacon, PhD, and Lucy Aphramor, PhD

Â Â
5.
Â Â
Cunt
, by Inga Muscio

Â Â
6.
Â Â
Fat Girl Finishing School
, by Rachel Wiley

Â Â
7.
Â Â
Fat Girl Walking
, by Brittany Gibbons

Â Â
8.
Â Â
Fat! So?
, by Marilyn Wann

Â Â
9.
Â Â
Health at Every Size
, by Linda Bacon, PhD

10.
Â Â
Hot and Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love, and Fashion
, edited by Virgie Tovar

11.
Â Â
Lessons from the Fat-o-sphere
, by Kate Harding and Marianne Kirby

12.
Â Â
SparkleFat
, by Melissa May

13.
Â Â
Two Whole Cakes
, by Lesley Kinzel

notes
notes

INTRODUCTION

1
.
Â Â
Marianne Kirby, “Go On and Call Me Fat; It's True,” xoJane, May 30, 2013,
www.xojane.com/issues/saying-the-f-word-fat-fat-fat
.

2
.
Â Â
Holly Hilgenberg, “Better Homes & Bloggers,” Bitch no.54, 2012.

CHAPTER 1

1
.
Â Â
Lindsay King-Miller, “Pretty Unnecessary,”
Bitch
, no. 65, Winter 2015.

2
.
Â Â
Sonya Renee Taylor, December 3, 2014, comment on “Pretty Unnecessary,”
Bitch Media
,
http://bitchmagazine.org/article/pretty-unnecessary-beauty-body-positivity
.

3
.
Â Â
Dr. Nancy Etcoff, Dr. Susie Orbach, Dr. Jennifer Scott, Heidi D'Agostino, “The Real Truth About Beauty: A Global Report,” commissioned by Dove, accessed April 9, 2015,
http://www.dove.us/docs/pdf/19_08_10_The_Truth_About_Beauty-White_Paper_2.pdf
.

4
.
Â Â
National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Eating Disorders (ANAD), “Eating Disorders Statistics,” accessed April 9, 2015,
www.anad.org/get-information/about-eating-disorders/eating-disorders-statistics
.

5
.
Â Â
G. B. Schreiber, M. Robins, R. Striegel-Moore, E. Obarzanek, J. A. Morrison, D. J. Wright, “Weight Modification Efforts Reported by Black and White Preadolescent Girls: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Growth and Health Study,” National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, July 1996, accessed April 9, 2015,
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8668414
.

6
.
Â Â
ANAD, “Eating Disorders Statistics.”

7
.
Â Â
Ibid.

CHAPTER 2

1
.
Â Â
Toothpaste for Dinner, February 6, 2013,
www.toothpastefordinner.com/index.php?date=020613
.

2
.
Â Â
BrenÃ© Brown,
The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
(Center City, Minn.: Hazelden, 2010).

CHAPTER 3

1
.
Â Â
Jared Diamond,
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1998), pp. 104â113.

2
.
Â Â
Laura Fraser,
Losing It: America's Obsession with Weight and the Industry That Feeds on It
(New York: Dutton, 1997), pp. 16.

3
.
Â Â
Ibid.

4
.
Â Â
Rothblum, Esther D.
The Fat Studies Reader.
New York: New York University Press, 2009.

5
.
Â Â
Naomi Wolf,
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
(New York: W. Morrow, 2002), pp. 58â85.

6
.
Â Â
Ibid.

7
.
Â Â
Ibid.

8
.
Â Â
Booth, Barbara, “Real Men Don't Cryâbut They Are Exfoliating. Say Hello to âMampering,'” CNBC. December 6, 2014,
www.cnbc.com/id/102241557#
.

CHAPTER 4

1
.
Â Â
Geoff Williams, “The Heavy Price of Losing Weight,”
U.S. News & World ReportâMoney
, January 2, 2013,
http://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/articles/2013/01/02/the-heavy-price-of-losing-weight
.

2
.
Â Â
American Society of Plastic Surgeons, “2012 Plastic Surgery Statistics Report,”
http://www.plasticsurgery.org/Documents/news-resources/statistics/2012-Plastic-Surgery-Statistics/full-plastic-surgery-statistics-report.pdf
.

3
.
Â Â
Beth Greenfield, “Fat Pride Activist Inspires Curvy Girls to Show
Some Skin This Summer,”
Yahoo! Health,
August 8, 2014,
www.yahoo.com/health/fat-pride-activist-inspires-curvy-girls-to-show-some-94178904482.html
.

4
.
Â Â
This American Life
, episode 545, WBEZ Chicago's This American Life episode #545: “If You don't Have Anything Nice to Say, SAY IT IN ALL CAPS.” aired January 23, 2015,
www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/545/transcript
.

5
.
Â Â
Comment on Prince Ea, “How to Instantly Defeat Any Hater,” December 2014, accessed May 1, 2015,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wZEP5ZHZpA
.

6
.
Â Â
Meghan Tonjes, YouTube,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTmEEZsm3Dk
.

7
.
Â Â
This American Life
, “If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say.”

8
.
Â Â
Paulo Freire, Pedgogy of the Oppressed, 30th Anniversay Edition (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2000).

9
.
Â Â
Plus size style blogger Gabi Gregg of Gabifresh

10
.
Â Â
Sara C. Nelson, “This Plus Size Model Has a Message for Every Woman Who Ever Doubted Herself,”
The Huffington Post UK
, January 26, 2015,
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/01/26/plus-size-model-tess-munster-message-every-woman-doubted-herself-_n_6546768.html
.

10
.
Â Â
Kelsey Miller, “The Problem with Fat Monica,”
Refinery 29
, December 22, 2014,
http://www.refinery29.com/fat-characters-tvmovies#page-1
.

GUEST ESSAY: ANDREW WHALEN

1
.
Â Â
Matthew B. Feldman and Ilan H. Meyer, “Eating Disorders in Diverse Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Populations,”
International Journal of Eating Disorders
40, no. 3 (April 2007): 218â226.

CHAPTER 5

1
.
Â Â
Steven Blair, P.E.D., Cooper Institute for Aerobics Research, 1997,
www.obesitymyths.com/myth4.1.htm
.

2
.
Â Â
American Medical Association House of Delegates, “Recognition of Obesity as a Disease,” May 16, 2013,
www.npr.org/documents/2013/jun/ama-resolution-obesity.pdf
; Harriet Brown, “How Obesity Became a Disease,”
The Atlantic
, March 24, 2015,
www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/03/how-obesity-became-a-disease/388300
.

3
.
Â Â
T. Mann, A. J. Tomiyama, E. Westling, A. M. Lew, B. Samuels, J. Chatman, “Medicare's Search for Effective Obesity Treatments: Diets are Not the Answer,”
American Psychologist
62 (April 2007), quoted in Kate Harding and Marianne Kirby,
Lessons From the Fat-o-sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body
(New York: Perigee Books, 2009).

4
.
Â Â
Ragen Chastain, “Do 95% of Dieters Really Fail?” accessed May 2, 2015,
https://danceswithfat.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/do-95-of-dieters-really-fail
.

5
.
Â Â
Rick Nauert, PhD, “75% of Women Have Disordered Eating,”
PsychCentral
, 2008,
www.psychcentral.com/news/2008/04/23/75-percent-of-women-have-disordered-eating/2181.html
.

6
.
Â Â
Gaesser, Glenn A.,
Big Fat Lies: The Truth About Your Weight and Your Health
(Carlsbad, Calif.: Gurze Books, 2002).

7
.
Â Â
L. Henry, “Even Kids are Suffering from Anorexia and Bulimia,”
http://eatingdisorders.suite101.com/article.cfm/eating_disorders_in_children
. See more at
http://www.nursingcenter.com/lnc/cearticle?tid=1031497#P79
.

8
.
Â Â
G. D. Foster, T. A. Wadden, A. P. Makris, D. Davidson, R. S. Sanderson, D. B. Allison, A. Kessler, “Primary Care Physicians' Attitudes About Obesity and Its Treatment,”
Obes Res
, October 2003, 11(10): 1168â7,
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14569041
.

9
.
Â Â
Marlene B. Schwartz, Heather O'Neal Chambliss, Kelly D. Brownell, Steven N. Blair, and Charles Billington, “Weight Bias Among Health Professionals Specializing in Obesity,” 2003,
www.size-acceptance.org/downloads/weight_bias_among.pdf
.

10
.
Â Â
Albino Blacksheep Cartoon.
www.albinoblacksheep.com/bogswallop

11
.
Â Â
Rachel P. Wildman, Paul Muntner, Kristi Reynolds, Aileen P. McGinn, Swapril Rajpathak, Judith Wyle-Rosett, MaryFran R. Sowers, “The Obese Without Cardiometabolic Risk Factor Clustering and the Normal Weight with Cardiometabolic Risk Factor Clustering: Prevalence and Correlates of 2 Phenotypes Among the U.S. Population (NHANES 1999-2004),”
Archives of Internal Medicine
, 2008,168(15): 1617â24.

12
.
Â Â
Linda Bacon and Lucy Aphramor,
Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand About Weight
(Dallas, Tex.: BenBella Books, 2004).

GUEST ESSAY: JEN MCLELLAN

1
.
Â Â
Angelina R. Sutin and Antonio Terracciano (2013), “Perceived Weight Discrimination and Obesity,” PLoS ONE 8(7): e70048. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0070048.

CHAPTER 6

1
.
Â Â
Tina Fey,
Bossypants
(New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2011).

2
.
Â Â
http://blog.modcloth.com/2014/09/03/fashion-truth-letter/

3
.
Â Â
Oxford Dictionary Online
, “Selfie,” accessed May 2, 2015,
www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/selfie
.

4
.
Â Â
“American Society of Plastic Surgeons: 2012 Plastic Surgery Statistics Report 2012,”
www.plasticsurgery.org/Documents/news-resources/statistics/2012-Plastic-Surgery-Statistics/full-plastic-surgery-statistics-report.pdf
.

5
.
Â Â
Mayo Clinic Online
, Diseases and Conditions: Cellulite, accessed May 2, 2015,
www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/cellulite/basics/causes/CON-20029901
.

6
.
Â Â
Pia Schiavo-Campo,
Chronicles of a Mixed Fat Chick
,
http://mixed-fatchick.com
. Personal Communication.

7
.
Â Â
Naomi Wolf,
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
(New York: W. Morrow, 2002).

8
.
Â Â
Carl Haub, “How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth?” Population Reference Bureau, October 2011.
www.prb.org/publications/articles/2002/HowManyPeopleHaveEverLivedonEarth.aspx

9
.
Â Â
Runfola, Cristin, et al., 2013, “Characteristics of Women with Body Size Satisfaction at Midlife: Results of the Gender and Body Image (GABI) Study,”
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08952841.2013.816215
.

10
.
Â Â
Charing Ball, “More Than the Coke Bottle Look: Why Plus-Size Isn't as Diverse as It Should Be,”
Madame Noire
, May 28, 2014.
www.madamenoire.com/433708/plus-size-isnt-really-diverse
.

CHAPTER 7

1
.
Â Â
Joshua Brustein, “Americans Now Spend More Time on Facebook Than They Do on Their Pets,”
Bloomberg Business
, July 23, 2014,
www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-07-23/heres-how-much-time-people-spend-on-facebook-daily
.

2
.
Â Â
Lynda G. Boothroyd, Martin J. TovÃ©e, Thomas V. Pollet, “Visual Diet Versus Associative Learning as Mechanisms of Change in Body Size Preferences,”
PLOS ONE
, November 7, 2012,
journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0048691
.

3
.
Â Â
Nancy Shute, “How Changing Visual Cues Can Affect Attitudes About Weight,”
NPR
, November 9, 2012,
www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/11/09/164789823/how-changing-visual-cues-can-affect-attitudes-about-weight
.

CHAPTER 8

1
.
Â Â
National Alliance on Mental Illness, “Mental Illness Facts and Numbers,” accessed May 1, 2015,
www.nami.org/factsheets/mental-illness_factsheet.pdf
.

2
.
Â Â
National Institute of Mental Health, “Serious Mental Illness (SMI) Among U.S. Adults,” accessed May 1, 2015,
www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/prevalence/serious-mental-illness-smi-among-us-adults.shtml
.

3
.
Â Â
Merriam-Webster.com
, “Illness,” accessed May 1, 2015,
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/illness
.

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