Episode 022: On today’s episode of Real Health Radio I interview Virgie Tovar. Virgie is an author and one of the USA’s leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body image. She is a plus size style writer for BuzzFeed, the founder of BABECAMP and the creator of #LoseHateNotWeight. Virgie also edited the anthology Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion. She holds a Master’s degree in Human Sexuality with a focus on the intersections of body size, race and gender. Virgie has been featured by the New York Times, MTV, Al Jazeera, NPR, Yahoo Health, Yahoo front page, the San Francisco Chronicle, Huffington Post, Cosmopolitan Magazine Online, Bust Magazine, and was recently named in the Women in Power issue of San Francisco Magazine.

Here’s what we talk about in this podcast episode:

3:00 How her lineage affected her body shape

6:10 How age affects beliefs about weight

9:15 How dating was different to what she had been led to believe it would be

15:05 How her home impacted on beliefs about her body

19:25 Why she prefers fat instead of terms overweight or obese

24:20 How fat shaming and weight discrimination happens in everyday life

29:45 How weight discrimination affects health

37:30 How privilege is an important concept that people need to be aware of

42:00 Why compassion can be so important in understanding privilege

47:20 Why she created #losehatenotweight

54:00 Her experience as a fat activist online

60:45 Her program Babecamp and what it’s all about

Here’s how you can connect with Virgie Tovar:

Website

Facebook

Twitter

Instagram

Her book

Babecamp

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