Hi, I'm Ethan Supply, welcome to American Blood. 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 as entertainment, food as sport, food as fuel.

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Leah V is an author and model. Out now is her book Unashamed, musings have a fat, black

muslim. You can find her on Instagram at L Vernon 2000.

Leah V, welcome to the American Glutton podcast.

Thank you for having me. I'm so excited to see what we're going to talk about today.

I'm excited to talk to you about so many different things. I mean, we could talk about

your book. We could talk about you being a hijab model. We could talk about body positivity.

I think like for me personally, I'm interested in all that stuff. For me personally, the thing

that resonates more than anything is body positivity simply because I have none of it

and I've been very overweight and had less than I have now, but even having achieved all

of my fitness goals, I still find myself being very self critical. So I'm super curious

about that and wondering if that is something innate or that is something you work at. I'm

interested in you, Leah. Yeah. I mean, I think that I mean, like I have been up and down

on my weight. I think I am the biggest. I've been in a minute. And so, but it was actually

really funny. I actually lost a shit ton of weight when I was 17 through eating disorders

and it was a really bad time for me. You know, grandpa's like a fat black Muslim. You

are already seen as, you know, all these things unworthy, you know, all this stuff coming

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