Phone-a-friend: Lose Hate Not Weight with Virgie Tovar

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2016

⏱️ 42 minutes

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In this phone-a-friend edition, Ann calls author, fashion-forward and body positive activist Virgie Tovar. She shares her journey from happily jiggling kid to starvation-obsessed college student, to happy and healthy Virgie of today.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend.
0:02.0	A podcast for long-distance besties everywhere.
0:04.4	I am Amina Tussaud.
0:06.1	And I'm Anne Friedman.
0:07.6	Every other week we'll be bringing you a special phone or friend episode
0:10.5	between either Anne or me and one of our rad pals.
0:13.9	Hey Amina, this week I talked to Virgie Tovar who is an activist and author
0:20.8	generally fashionable and fabulous woman
0:24.7	who runs a campaign called Luz Hate not wait.
0:28.7	Which is I think an important early in the year message when everyone is like weirdly dieting obsessed.
0:35.6	And she's just a general body positivity inspiration for ladies of all shapes and sizes.
0:41.8	So I was super excited to talk to her about her own self-acceptance journey
0:47.4	and to hear what she has to say to all of us who are still on that long road.
0:57.7	It's time you had the talk.
1:01.7	Give your reasons.
1:05.7	Say it's not her fault.
1:09.7	Ready you just met somebody new.
1:15.7	Tell them not to get obsessed.
1:19.7	Thank you so much for being on the podcast.
1:23.7	Amina and I are both huge admirers of your work.
1:25.7	So this is exciting for me.
1:27.7	Thank you. I'm glad to be here.
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