The One About Coming Out, Fat Activism and Living Beyond The Male Gaze with Lauren Chan
The Papaya Podcast
The Papaya Podcast
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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LIVE IN MIAMI! Sports Illustrated’s Lauren Chan is here! Lauren is a model and TV personality here to share her story on her career, coming out (with a splash!) and how coming out helped her come more into her own, in so many ways. We talk about what shifted for her in no longer living for the male gaze, how her fashion has evolved with it - and what rooted her heart for talking about size inclusivity.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. |
| 0:07.4 | I'm your hostess, Try and Hermostis, Sarah Nicole. |
| 0:10.5 | And each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that. |
| 0:17.9 | So get ready to get inspired, get candid, get real, because we are all in this digital |
| 0:23.3 | space together. All right. We are in Miami. Can you tell? No, actually, we have a little |
| 0:34.2 | It's a beach picture. Yeah, there's a cool big picture. But we need to tell the story about how we fucking made this happen because we were literally having a conversation. This is alignment. It was the wildest thing I think. I've not like a big manifestation person. I've never been like, yes, that. Like I think you can draw energy. You draw your energy to the things that you're focused on and there's like that part of it. but I've never been like, yes, that, like I think, I think you can draw energy. You draw your energy to the things that you're focused on and there's like that part of it. But I've never been like, yes, I will write this down on a board. Okay, but that is. I know. I know. So I'm the same way. Like, I'm not very woo-woo, but energy, attention, focus. Like, it does work. Yeah. So we were like sitting and I don't know why you said this, but you were like, have you ever been to Miami? And I'm like, no. And you're like, would you want to do a girls weekend there? And I was like, yes. And then it was like an hour later, I get this email from Sports Illustrated asking if I would like to come down and walk in this. |
| 1:28.9 | And I was like, holy shit. |
| 1:29.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:31.2 | Lauren, we literally did that within an hour. And we were sitting on the Knicks swim trip. |
| 1:35.2 | Yes. |
| 1:35.6 | And then after all of that happened, Nix got involved with this Sports Illustrated |
| 1:40.5 | Swammy Swim Week weekend and we're wearing Knicks on the runway. |
| 1:45.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:45.6 | So it's like very aligned. |
| 1:47.3 | It was so like when it when I was first asked like I don't know if I told you |
| 1:51.0 | this but I was like ready to say no. |
| 1:52.5 | I was just like I was on. |
| 1:55.0 | You got me out of my seat. |
| 1:55.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:56.1 | I was just like not in a great head space and I felt like I wasn't ready for that attention or |
| 2:05.4 | wasn't ready for potentially what I know would happen, which is just like the negativity along |
| 2:11.1 | with the positive. I just like felt like so I can't even place it because the fact is I just |
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