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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Summary
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. I'm your hostess trying |
| 0:08.8 | her mostess Sarah Nicole and each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that. |
| 0:18.0 | So get ready to get inspired, get candid, get real because we are all in this digital space together. |
| 0:27.4 | All right, we are in Miami. |
| 0:31.9 | Can you tell? No, actually we have a little... It's a beach picture. Yeah, there's a cool beach picture. But we need to tell the story about how we |
| 0:40.9 | fucking made this happen because we were literally having a conversation. |
| 0:44.4 | This is a linemen. |
| 0:45.4 | It was the wildest thing I think. |
| 0:47.3 | I've not like a big manifestation person. |
| 0:49.2 | 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. |
| 1:00.0 | I know. I know. I know. I know. |
| 1:02.0 | So I'm the same way like I'm not very woo-woo but energy attention focus like it does work |
| 1:09.6 | 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 |
| 1:25.4 | come down and walk in this and I was like holy shit yeah Lauren we'd |
| 1:29.9 | literally did that within an hour and we were sitting on the Nick's swim trip. |
| 1:35.2 | Yes. |
| 1:35.6 | And then after all of that happened, |
| 1:37.9 | Nick's got involved with this Sports Illustrated |
| 1:40.7 | swim Miami Swim Week Weekend |
| 1:42.4 | and we're wearing Nick's on the ride. Sports I was like ready to say no I was just like I was I was on my seat I was I was just like I know I was just like not in a great |
| 2:01.1 | head space and I felt like I wasn't ready for that attention or wasn't ready for potentially what I know would happen which is just like the negativity along with the positive I just like felt like so I can't even |
| 2:14.3 | place it because the fact is I just didn't feel deserving or I didn't feel like I was |
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