Bodyposipanda (Megan Jane Crabbe)

Happy Place

Fearne Cotton

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Personal Journals

4.6 • 15.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Megan spent a long time hating her body - and then, just three years ago, she discovered the body positive movement and her life changed.

In this live interview with Fearne, she describes how she took that message to Instagram, how she deals with the haters (both online and in her head) and found her happy place.

Content warning: contains references to anorexia, self harm.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Happy Place and the second of eight episodes recorded in
0:06.0	front of a live audience at the Happy Place Festival. I'm Fern Cotton and today
0:11.3	we're back at Chiswick House to meet Body Positive Instagram sensation Megan
0:16.3	Jane Krab also known as Body Posse Panda. If you think back to like the first
0:23.7	time that you were ever made to feel like your body was wrong, how absolutely
0:28.9	ridiculous is it that you were ever taught to feel that way? I was five years old.
0:35.1	And as we're talking Body Image we do stray into some darker moments from Megan's
0:41.2	own personal journey. Do check out the show notes on this podcast for anything
0:46.3	that you may find triggering. If I do guarantee that you'll come out of this
0:50.6	podcast with an altogether more healthy relationship with social media, I know
0:56.2	that I have this podcast recording had a profound effect on me and it's one
1:01.7	that I really haven't stopped thinking about ever since so I really have to
1:05.7	thank Megan on a more personal note for that as well.
1:10.2	Hi it's Gabby Logan here from the Midpoint podcast The Podcast which is all
1:14.4	about being in the midlife but the glorious things. While the podcast is
1:18.1	currently being sponsored by JD Williams JD Williams is the only cross-category
1:22.7	store fully designed around midlife women and our lifestyles. So many things
1:27.2	have changed but then so many things stay the same as well. I love hanging out
1:30.7	with my female friends more than I ever have because girls are still girls.
1:34.2	We like dressing up, we like going out, we like dancing and just have to be in a
1:38.0	club dancing in the living room as long as you with your besties and you're
1:41.3	feeling good about yourself then you could be anywhere. JD Williams will have
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