How to Love Your Body
Wonder Cabinet
Wonder Cabinet Productions
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2016
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
When did "fat" become a four-letter word? Leaders of the body acceptance movement say we've become a fat-phobic nation, and it's time to stop shaming fat people. In this hour, curvy girls and plus-size women talk about the emotional and physical costs of America's toxic obsession with weight and body image. Brittany Gibbons on Fat Shaming; The Science and Politics of Weight Obsession; A Reading from Dietland; Sarai Walker on Dietland; The History of the Gym; Ruth Reichl on Food Culture.
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| 0:00.0 | Support for WPR comes from Hackberries Above People's Food Co-op in La Crosse, open for holiday parties and gatherings, serving a new winter menu featuring fresh ingredients from local farmers and producers. PFC.C. C OOP. |
| 0:18.4 | It's to the best of our knowledge from PRI. I'm Anne Strange Champs. Today we're going to begin |
| 0:23.6 | with a personal question, a pretty intimate personal question. How do you feel about your body? |
| 0:29.7 | When you look in the mirror, do you like what you see? Because a lot of us don't. |
| 0:38.7 | I was pregnant and I had a daughter and she looked just like me. |
| 0:45.1 | In every way, she had my face and my dimples. |
| 0:48.2 | She has my thighs. |
| 0:49.9 | She has all of it. |
| 0:51.3 | I mean, it's, she's the most beautiful thing that I've ever seen in my whole life. |
| 0:55.3 | And I tell her all day. And everybody tells me, oh, she looks just like you. And I'm like, thank you. |
| 1:01.5 | She's beautiful. She's gorgeous. And then I would go home and I would hate myself in the mirror that when I was taking my clothes off, I got up in the morning and hated myself getting out of the shower. |
| 1:12.0 | And finally it hit me that I'm telling this girl that she's beautiful, and I'm a 30-year-old version of her, |
| 1:20.2 | and I'm hideous to myself. |
| 1:22.9 | Brittany Gibbons has been called fat for most of her life. |
| 1:26.7 | She knows what it's like to cry because you can't stand what you look like |
| 1:30.0 | to avoid mirrors and cameras to change in the bathroom so your own husband won't see you naked. |
| 1:36.5 | But then there came a day when she realized that she was going to have to stop all of that because of her daughter. |
| 1:42.3 | I remember distinctly one day she was in a princess dress and twirling around and she |
| 1:49.5 | went up to the mirror and she stood there and she sucked in a little bit and put her hand |
| 1:55.3 | right on her stomach and I thought, oh my gosh, the wind just got sucked out of my lungs because I do that move every morning. |
| 2:04.5 | It is the last time I look in the mirror before I leave the house, kind of this, please let me be skinny today situation where I suck in and I press on my stomach, hoping it will look okay for the day. And she was doing it out of habit |
| 2:20.3 | of watching me do it. And I thought, oh my gosh, what am I doing? I'm ruining her life. I'm giving |
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