#71: Bringing Plus-Size Bodies to the Mainstream with Kelsey Miller of Refinery29's 67 Percent Project

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison

Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS

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🗓️ 30 September 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Kelsey Miller (Big Girl, Refinery29's Anti-Diet Project) returns to discuss The 67 Percent Project, Refinery29's new initiative to increase representation of plus-size bodies to match the actual percentage of American women who are plus-size. She shares why it's so important for people to see larger bodies in the media, how other content creators can get involved with this effort, what's new in her life since the last time she was on the podcast back in May, and more!

This is a special bonus episode in honor of International Podcast Day. We'll return to our regularly scheduled weekly episodes next Tuesday!

Kelsey Miller is the author of BIG GIRL: How I Gave Up Dieting & Got A Life, and the Senior Features Writer at Refinery29, the leading digital lifestyle brand for women. She began her career in the film production industry before transitioning to full-time writing, joining Refinery29 in 2012. Soon after, she created The Anti-Diet Project, one of the website's most popular franchises. Kelsey specializes in first-person essays, cultural commentary, humor writing, fitness, food, body image, advice, and feminist issues. Find her online at KelseyMiller.com, and buy her book on Amazon.

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0:00.0	I remember I was teeing the little gums bleeding cry day evening.
0:07.4	It was all about eating when I became a teen.
0:10.3	It was all about beef and now ready for the world.
0:13.4	Transync my teeth and stacking it.
0:15.6	Hey guys, welcome to episode 71, a surprise bonus extra episode, uh, in honor of International
0:23.4	podcasting day, which it is today.
0:26.0	So I knew I was going to do something special and bonacy for international podcasting
0:30.9	day.
0:31.9	I just wasn't sure what.
0:32.9	And then I saw the news earlier this week that Kelsey Miller and the Refinery29 crew
0:38.2	have launched this amazing project called the 67% project, which aims to increase representation
0:45.1	visual representation of plus size women on their website.
0:48.7	And I thought it was so fascinating and powerful and just such a needed thing in the world
0:54.3	to create this kind of visual representation that I knew I wanted to talk to Kelsey again
0:58.9	and have her back on the podcast to talk with us about this project.
1:01.7	And then we also caught up about life in general and how things have been going since she
1:06.1	released her book and had just a really great little mini episode.
1:10.8	So I'm releasing this to you as kind of a, it's an in between, I guess, it's in between
1:15.5	like a bonus episode and a regular episode and it's amazing.
1:19.2	I'm so excited for you guys to hear this.
1:21.1	I'm so excited for you to go check out the 67% project at Refinery29.com.
1:27.2	And I'm going to put a bunch of links about it in the show notes for this episode, which
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