Lindy West on what we’re getting wrong about weight

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Thirteen years ago, Seattle-based writer Lindy West wrote an essay that took the internet by storm called “Hello, I’m Fat.” That essay would become the 2016 New York Times best-selling memoir, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman, and later a Hulu television series. On today’s episode, Lindy, who is still writing and hosts a podcast, sits down with CNN’s Chief Medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta for a candid and honest conversation about living as a self-described “fat” person, and how the way she thinks about weight has changed since writing Shrill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.0	It was 13 years ago when a Seattle-based writer by the name of Lindy West published an essay that took the internet by storm.
0:40.0	It was called simply, hello, I'm fat.
0:43.6	And there was this way that calling myself fat publicly
0:48.6	made me fat, you know, whereas before I was operating
0:51.8	like, I am gonna be thin.
0:55.3	That's the cultural narrative that fat people are thin people
0:58.1	who are failing.
0:59.6	And so I was bought into that.
1:01.4	So that was scary to kind of in a certain way announce I'm throwing in the
1:07.2	towel of trying to be this other thing and waiting for my life to start.
1:17.0	Lindy's writing is vulnerable. It is honest.
1:18.0	It is confessional.
1:19.0	If you're familiar with her at all,
1:21.0	you know that her writing is also pretty funny. She really opens up
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