Hi, I'm Ethan Sopli, welcome to American Glutton. Outside of acting, my two favorite things

to do are diet and eat. I have a very complicated relationship with food and on this podcast,

we're going to talk about all of it. Food is entertainment, food is sport, food as fuel.

I'll talk to experts and the average person, just like you and me.

Kenny Shactor is an artist, a teacher and an author. I am very familiar with him from his opinion

pieces at Artnet. I think he's a really fascinating guy and I hope you enjoy my conversation with him.

You can find Kenny at Kenny Shactor on Instagram.

Kenny Shactor, welcome to the American Glutton podcast.

Thank you very much.

How are you, man?

Everything is good. It just can't complain. I could, but I'm not going to.

Well, maybe we can complain a little bit. I think a little bit of a complaint is good, but I'm glad it's good.

I had no idea that you grew up overweight.

Yes. Some of my earliest memories are dealing with issues of being constantly put on diets from,

probably, the age of five. And I have to say, like, once it becomes an issue,

it often follows you for the rest of your life.

And people would regularly assume that eating problems are more of a female oriented problem.

But I think it probably affects guys as much as women, to be honest, because it's something that I've had to deal with

throughout my entire life and still do.

Yeah, I wonder if it's just that there's, as far as like aesthetics go, that there's more,

certainly more attention put on the aesthetics of the female figure in the world than there is of the male.

And so if that just leaves us in a place of like, well, we should just shut up and not think about it.

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