Megan Jayne Crabbe: 'Making my body smaller has only ever made my life smaller' | 20
How Do You Cope?
Wondery
5 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
How do you learn to love your body?
John sits down with writer, presenter, and digital creator Megan Jayne Crabbe to talk about her experience of eating disorders, her journey into body positivity, and the reasons why women make themselves small.
Megan began posting online about body positivity under the handle Bodyposipanda at the age of 21. In her teens she struggled with anorexia and binge eating. Since then, she has amassed over 1 million followers and written 2 books. The latest - ‘We Don’t Make Ourselves Smaller Here’ - is out now.
On Thursday in our bonus episode The Gratitude List, Megan shares the 5 things that she is currently grateful for.
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| 0:09.7 | I hear you like a podcast and you like to be entertained. |
| 0:12.9 | I bet you also like to know what's going on in the world. |
| 0:15.4 | Especially when the news is so bonkers. |
| 0:17.3 | So can I suggest newscast? |
| 0:19.2 | It's a daily podcast with BBC journalists. That's us |
| 0:22.3 | talking about the news. About what's going on |
| 0:24.5 | and why it matters. And it may well |
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| 0:30.8 | every day on BBC Sounds. Hello and welcome to How Do You Cope with me, John Robbins. |
| 0:46.0 | This is the show where I sit down with very special guests to talk about the challenges they've faced and the coping mechanisms they use every day. |
| 0:55.5 | Today's guest is the author, |
| 1:01.5 | presenter and digital creator, Megan Jane Crabb. Megan began posting online about body positivity under the handle Body PosiPanda when she was 21. She has since amassed over a million |
| 1:07.0 | followers on social media and released her first book, Body Positive Power, in 2017. |
| 1:13.6 | In 2019, she toured her live show The Never Say Diet Club, which featured singing, dancing, |
| 1:19.5 | comedy sketches and empowering messages. She now writes, presents and talks on various platforms |
| 1:24.6 | about mental health, feminism and much more. Her new book, |
| 1:29.3 | We Don't Make Ourselves Smaller Here, Reclaiming All That Is Rightfully Ours, is Out Now, and talks about |
| 1:35.1 | ways in which we can live as our biggest, most unapologetic and most whole selves. In our |
| 1:41.1 | conversation, we spoke about the many ways in which women make themselves smaller. |
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