Hello, Freckle Tudy fam. Today we are joined by my cousin, Carly Loveman, one of my favorite people on this universe. Carly is a few years younger than me. I think three maybe.

And she is just the greatest.

We get into this a bit in the beginning of the episode, but basically the reason we are doing this episode is because when I posted a story saying like, oh, because I had to go at it with our grandma and a family weekend to combat some diet culture shit.

Everyone responded like, how do you do this? What do you say? This is so something that happens to me too. Can you talk about it more? So that's what we're doing.

We make it very clear in this episode, but I just want to point out ahead of time. These are things that we all converse with our family. We're not like Aaron Dirty laundry on the show.

This is like a very much a topic of conversation within our family. And that is why we felt comfortable sharing it. We also spoke with members of our family about this.

So this isn't like a gotcha moment by any means. We dive into how we've experienced diet culture stuff in our families, how we react, what we say.

Like even how I've played a role in certain things that Carly has experienced as a kid and Carly's experience just feeling a little other than our family or other members of our family.

I hope you guys enjoy without further ado. Here's Carly.

Guys, I'm super pumped because we're here with my cousin, Carly, who I've shared. I mean, you're on my page a lot from like cousin's coffee. Yeah, you are.

Cousin's coffee. Cousin's coffee. Family stuff. For context, Carly is my mom's sister's middle child. So we're both middle.

We're actually very similar in a lot of ways different in many, but very similar in also many.

And Car, how old are you now? 27. Okay, 27.

Yeah, our birthdays are coming up. We're both on the 27. Yeah, it's birthday week for me as we record this. But anyway, the reason I really wanted to have Carly on for many reasons.

What really sparked this for me was we were all sitting at the beach. And we, it was like our moms, Nana, Susan, you're there, wasn't she?

I think so. Yeah, our mom's other sister, Marin, who's Carly's older sister and loose.

It was for Lucy's birthday. Right. We've run this for the July, whatever we had a decent amount of us from our Oaks woman family.

And we were talking, Nana made a comment that was heavily rooted in Diet Culture about ice cream. And I was like, Nana, you cannot say that.

And it kind of just sparked this whole conversation. And it was Carly and me kind of like taking the lead of like, that fighting.

Being vocal, being vocal. Speaking up. Yes. Good. Calling it out. Yes. I've just like, that's not something that should be said.

Anymore or ever. But we also acknowledge that a our Nana is from a very different generation and be our mothers grew up with certain things that around them that trickled down to us.

And the two of us, and I think almost I would say all of the grandchildren are very set on like breaking this mold and doing our best to stop it from continuing, especially as we have children.

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