#72: How to Beat Body Shame and Binge Eating with Lynn Chen, Actor and Food Blogger
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2016
⏱️ 56 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Actor, food blogger, and body-image activist Lynn Chen shares how getting teased in childhood led her to develop binge eating disorder, how becoming an actor affected her body image, and lots more.
In 2013, Marie Claire Magazine called Lynn one of The New Change Agents. She is a Spokesperson for the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) as well as Skype's Acting Ambassador. In addition to running two award-winning blogs (The Actor's Diet and Thick Dumpling Skin) Lynn is a writer, most recently published in LA Weekly. Find her on her blogs or at LynnChen.com.
To learn more about Food Psych and our guest, visit christyharrison.com/foodpsych
Ready to make peace with food? Join Christy's intuitive eating online course!
How healthy is your relationship with food? Take the quiz and get free resources at christyharrison.com/quiz!
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Food Psych, a podcast about nutrition, eating disorders and body image. |
| 0:04.6 | I'm your host, Kristi Harrison, and I'm a registered dietitian nutritionist and certified |
| 0:08.8 | intuitive eating counselor, specializing in health at every size. Join me as I talk with interesting |
| 0:14.2 | people from all walks of life about their relationships to food. |
| 0:30.6 | Hey guys, I'm so happy to be coming back to you weekly again. So this is the first episode in a |
| 0:38.4 | while where it's coming out just a week after the last episode. And if you didn't hear my announcement |
| 0:43.1 | on that episode, I am now weekly again with the podcast. So be sure to download and check out new |
| 0:48.8 | episodes every week, every Tuesday. We're here with a new conversation for you. And today's is a |
| 0:54.3 | great one. I'm really excited and had had this guest on my list to talk with for a while. |
| 0:58.8 | Her name is Lin Chen. And some of you may know her from the acting and entertainment world. |
| 1:04.4 | She's one of those people who's like been in everything and you'd recognize her face. |
| 1:08.1 | But some of you also might recognize her from the eating disorder recovery and body image world. |
| 1:13.3 | She's a body image activist and spokesperson for the National Eating Disorders Association. |
| 1:18.4 | And she also is a food writer. So she has a food blog where she sort of bridges her acting work |
| 1:24.5 | and her food and body image work. And it's called the actors diet. But it's not about a diet. |
| 1:30.3 | It's not like some kind of prescriptive BS. You know, it's it's like her thoughts on food and body |
| 1:36.5 | from the perspective of a working actor. And then she also has another blog. This is like a very |
| 1:41.4 | productive woman. She has another blog called Thick Dumbling Skin, which she co-runs with Lisa Lee. |
| 1:48.0 | And that is all about food and body image issues specific to the Asian American community. |
| 1:53.2 | And it's a place where people can go to connect with others and get support around those particular |
| 1:58.9 | issues. So I'm going to have links to all of those things in the show notes. And I'm going to bring |
| 2:03.2 | you our conversation in just a moment. And I think you guys will really love it. And first, I just |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.