I’m More Than ‘Plus-Size’: Callie Thorpe
Should I Delete That?
Alex Light & Em Clarkson
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
In this week's podcast, Em and Alex are joined by writer and influencer Callie Thorpe. Callie's content focusses on travel and wellbeing, but it didn't start out this way. Callie is plus-size, and over the years has been scrutinised for her appearance: namely over a 'controversial' Cosmopolitan magazine cover where she was featured. Callie talks about recovering from the backlash of the cover, the fear of letting women down by stepping out of the limelight and how she rebuilt her confidence, brick by brick. Callie explains how she rediscovered herself by living a joyful existence, and why she wants to share this joy online.
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Edited by Daisy Grant
Music by Alex Andrew
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| 0:20.3 | I just felt like I was laying lots of women down that I had always spoken about and I felt really sad because I had let this get to me but I just realized that I wanted to create a space where I could just be joyful. Hello and welcome back to you, should I delete that? |
| 0:26.4 | I'm M Clarkson. |
| 0:27.4 | And I'm Alex Light. |
| 0:28.4 | How are we doing? |
| 0:29.0 | I'm good. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm going to apologize for the audio quality on my side. I'm not turning the air conditioning off don't make me it's so hot even I will concede |
| 0:38.7 | 38 degrees is a hut-hat It was thought the earlier. |
| 0:42.8 | Ewah. |
| 0:44.8 | It's stunning, but like I'm pregnant, I'm hot, I cannot turn the air conditioning or I will simply, |
| 0:52.4 | I will just perish if I turn it off. |
| 0:54.8 | We can cope. We can cope with the hum of the aircon to keep you sane because that sounds |
| 1:01.5 | disgusting. How are you? Have you got anything good, bad or awkward for me? |
| 1:06.3 | Good bad or awkward. Yes my good I mean I'm not looking good right now. I literally feel so awful. |
| 1:17.0 | I just, I just, I look awful, but, but, my good, is that I shouldn't be looking awful okay bear |
| 1:25.7 | with me I'm gonna bring this back around I feel gross I feel like when I look at |
| 1:29.6 | myself in the mirror I think I talked about this last week I I just don't recognize myself. I just feel gross. |
| 1:35.6 | And so I went and got my eyebrows done and my eyelashes done. |
| 1:39.6 | Yeah, eyebrows do look fantastic. I thought that. I can't see it eyelashes look very dark. |
| 1:44.0 | They look very dark. They look very dark. I will die on this hill. Dark eyebrows are a vibe. |
| 1:50.0 | Yeah, but I'm I am quite fair though, like is Carradelvin so is Kalee. Yeah, but that's I don't know who Kalee is but who's Kalee. |
| 2:00.0 | A-Kalee is? No, Amelia Clark in Game of Thrones, mother of dragons. |
| 2:04.0 | Oh, God, yeah, she's well hot. |
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