Ep. 66 - Kimberly Rae Miller on the Origin of Perfection + Her New Book 'Beautiful Bodies'

Almost 30

Krista Williams & Lindsey Simcik

Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.5 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Krista and Lindsey are so excited to welcome Kimberly Rae Miller to the podcast this week! #Almost30nation listeners who attended the "Love Your Body" event got to read Kimberly's new book Beautiful Bodies before anyone else! The response has been, well, beautiful. Kimberly brings a balanced dose of humor, curiosity, depth, and vulnerability to the body positive space. As a child model, she became aware of her body at a very young age. Kimberly shares what it was like dieting alongside her mom to prepare for a beauty pageant, how her obsession with being perfect stemmed from her father's hoarding, and how the exhaustion with ALL of this eventually inspired her to examine the connection between her upbringing and her relationship with her body. We unwrap: How being honest about your broken parts opens up a healing conversation Her first book "Coming Clean", a memoir about her upbringing in a hoarder's household Why she owes her entire career to her poor relationship with her body How a miscarriage showed her how to be compassionate with her body How her exhaustion with the obsession of losing weight inspired her to look beyond her body and seek MORE Highlights from and insight on her new book, Beautiful Bodies, which is a thoughtful blend of memoir and social history. FAM, we have all had negative self talk at one time or another. A thought that buries itself so deep in our subconscious that it creates this alternate reality where we are not good enough. Well we hope this episode assures you that YOU ARE NOT ALONE. What you are feeling or have felt, someone else has felt that too. Kimberly is so honest and candid, we can't wait for you to connect with her. Take a deep breath of gratitude for that body of yours. IT IS AH-MAZING. Happy listening, babies! This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Podsights - https://podsights.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Almost 30 podcast. It's Lindsay Simpson and Crystal Williams.
0:11.6	Greetings. Almost 30.
0:19.2	Nation, unite. We come in peace. We come in peace.
0:23.0	We serve you. We serve you with great interview.
0:26.4	We got an extra episode this week.
0:30.2	We got an extra ep.
0:31.5	You're welcome. Merry Christmas, mother fuckers.
0:35.0	Oh, I feel bad for.
0:37.2	It's a right feel bad for Kim.
0:38.8	No, she gets this intro.
0:40.8	No, we got we got silly in this one.
0:43.2	Yeah, this is a real silly one.
0:44.7	No, we got silly. We got deep Kimberly Ray Miller is the author of Beautiful
0:50.7	Bodies, which is a quote brave and witty examination of how and why we tried to
0:55.8	control our bodies with food.
0:58.8	It was fascinating to track her path and how her struggles with her body and her relationship
1:07.9	with food have influenced where she is today.
1:12.3	A successful writer and author.
1:15.1	Yeah, I just loved our conversation. It was super candid and real.
1:20.7	Yeah, I don't know. I just like love this girl.
1:22.5	Yeah, she's she's an awesome person. She's a great writer.
1:25.3	She also has another book called Coming Clean, which talks a lot about her experience
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