#247: Navigating Pregnancy and Postpartum in a Larger Body with Kelsey Miller, Anti-Diet Writer and Author of BIG GIRL, Plus: Living with a Dieting Parent During COVID-19
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Anti-diet writer Kelsey Miller returns to the podcast to share her experiences of pregnancy in a larger body, adjusting to postpartum body changes, being a new mom, navigating the wedding industry as a plus-size bride, and so much more. Plus, Christy answers a listener question about eating-disorder recovery while living at home with a parent who pushes diet culture on you.
Kelsey Miller is a bestselling author and speaker based in Brooklyn, New York. While on staff at Refinery29, she created and wrote the award-winning Anti-Diet Project, one of the site's most popular franchises. In her role as Senior Features Writer, she covered a broad spectrum of topics, including popular culture, current events, body positivity and anti-diet culture, fitness, advice, and "weird history."
Kelsey is the author of the memoir Big Girl (Grand Central Publishing, 2016) and I'll Be There For You (Hanover Square Press, 2018), a pop-culture study on Friends. Kelsey and her work have been featured in The New York Times, Glamour, Vulture, Women's Health, Cup of Jo, Entertainment Weekly, Refinery29, People, Good Housekeeping, The Hairpin, Literary Hub, Ladies' Home Journal, SundanceNOW, The Rumpus, Bustle, and more. Find her online at KelseyMiller.com.
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| 0:05.2 | If you're ready to break free from diet culture and reclaim the life it stole from you, |
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| 0:17.3 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, health at every size, body liberation, |
| 0:24.3 | and taking down diet culture. |
| 0:26.8 | I'm your host christieherison and I'm an anti-diet registered dietitian, |
| 0:30.8 | certified intuitive eating counselor, and author of the book Anti-Diet, |
| 0:35.3 | reclaim your time, money, well-being, and happiness through intuitive eating, |
| 0:39.8 | which is available now wherever books are sold. |
| 0:42.3 | Join me here every week as I talk with fellow anti-diet advocates about their journeys toward peace with food and their bodies. |
| 0:49.3 | And by the way, on this show we bleep out diet culture stuff like weight and calorie numbers, |
| 0:54.8 | but we don't censor swear words or other adult language, so listener discretion is advised. |
| 1:25.8 | Hey there, welcome to episode 247 of Food Psych. |
| 1:29.8 | I'm your host christieherison and today I'm talking with fellow anti-diet writer Kelsey Miller for her fourth appearance on the pod. |
| 1:37.8 | We talk about her experiences of pregnancy in a larger body, |
| 1:41.8 | adjusting to postpartum body changes, being a new mom, navigating the wedding industry as a plus size bride, and so much more. |
| 1:50.8 | I can't wait to share our conversation with you in just a moment, and just a little content warning slash trigger warning for this episode since Kelsey is in process right now navigating the experience of postpartum body changes. |
| 2:03.8 | So if that's something that might feel triggering for you to hear about that process, you may want to wait for a little bit to listen. |
| 2:10.8 | I will also say that this episode was recorded a while ago before the pandemic, |
| 2:14.8 | so it's one of the last of the pre-pandemic recordings I think that we have. |
| 2:19.8 | It was also obviously recorded before the recent uprising for racial justice, |
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