#45: Fat Acceptance & Body Positivity with Virgie Tovar, Author and Activist
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2015
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Activist and author Virgie Tovar joins us to discuss why she gave up the battle to lose weight and started focusing on loving her body exactly as it is. We talk about fat acceptance, body positivity, smashing diet culture, embracing feminism, Instagramming your food, and lots more!
Virgie Tovar, MA is an author, activist and one of the nation's leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body image. She is a plus size style writer for BuzzFeed and the creator of #LoseHateNotWeight. Tovar edited the ground-breaking anthology Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion (Seal Press, November 2012). She holds a Master's degree in Human Sexuality with a focus on the intersections of body size, race and gender. After teaching "Female Sexuality" at the University of California at Berkeley, where she completed a Bachelor's degree in Political Science in 2005, she went onto host "The Virgie Show" (CBS Radio) in San Francisco. She is certified as a sex educator and was voted Best Sex Writer by the Bay Area Guardian in 2008 for her first book. She lives in San Francisco and offers workshops and lectures nationwide. Find her online at VirgieTovar.com and on Twitter @virgietovar.
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| 0:00.0 | I remember I was teething, little gums bleeding, cry day evening, it was all about eating. |
| 0:09.0 | When I became a teen, it was all about beef and now ready for the world. |
| 0:13.5 | Try and sink my teething. |
| 0:14.9 | Hey guys, welcome to episode 45 of Food Psych. |
| 0:18.2 | I'm your host, Kristi Harrison, and today we're talking about an always important topic, |
| 0:23.4 | body acceptance. |
| 0:24.9 | My guest is Vergie Tovar. |
| 0:26.7 | She's an author, activist, and scholar in the area of body positivity, fat positivity, |
| 0:32.6 | and fat acceptance. |
| 0:34.2 | And she's going to talk with us about how she stopped fighting against her body's natural |
| 0:37.6 | size and learned to love life in the process. |
| 0:41.6 | She has such an amazing story and is just such a delightful person and she's also so |
| 0:46.4 | radical and inspiring. |
| 0:48.5 | And I just love her politics and I love her social media presence. |
| 0:53.4 | I can't wait for you to hear from her in just a moment. |
| 0:56.8 | But first, I want to point you to a couple of great resources for helping improve your |
| 1:00.7 | relationship with food. |
| 1:02.4 | The first is my free quiz to assess your relationship with food and see how healthy it is. |
| 1:07.8 | I'll send you your results via email along with more than a dozen personalized, individualized |
| 1:12.8 | tips to help you make peace with food wherever you might fall in the spectrum right now. |
| 1:17.8 | Take the quiz and get your results today at christiehererson.com slash quiz. |
| 1:22.8 | That's christiehererson.com slash quiz. |
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