The One Where We Talk About Being Fat Positive With Megan Hack
The Papaya Podcast
The Papaya Podcast
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
After a lifetime of bullying, Megan found acceptance in a fat-positive community that changed the way she started to view herself and her body. After growing confidence through modelling and new narratives, Megan has been a part of the body positive movement before it ever hit the mainstream. Find out what she thinks about it all, what she has to tell us all about what it’s like to exist in a bigger body in today’s society, and why we truly can all be a part of the conversation.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:05.7 | Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. |
| 0:10.1 | I'm your hostess, Try and Hermostis, Sarah Nicole. |
| 0:13.1 | And each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that. |
| 0:20.7 | So get ready to get inspired, get candid, |
| 0:23.5 | get real, because we are all in this digital space together. All right, we're back and I'm |
| 0:31.4 | excited because I get to have some hometown love today. I am sitting here with Miss Megan Hack. Hello. I guess Mrs. Whatever. |
| 0:40.3 | So your Instagram handle is Bopo Mama, right? Is Bopo? It's underscore Bopo underscore mama underscore. |
| 0:49.5 | Oh God. It's whenever people take the, yeah, it's because people take the name so quickly. We don't have anything to go off of. Somebody actually made an Instagram handle, Bird's Papaya, like without the the, and then made it like Serenicol. And I was like, no, like, how is that? You're not allowed to just do that. Anyways, so Megan and I are both from Guelph and she has been somebody that I followed for years. I think just |
| 1:13.2 | honestly because we were in the same town and I saw your photos with Julia Bissado who is a almost like an |
| 1:20.6 | activist photographer who did this really cool campaign that went viral a couple years ago called |
| 1:25.2 | the mannequin series where she had different models of all |
| 1:28.0 | different body types hold up a standard mannequin to show kind of the reality differences between |
| 1:33.2 | mannequins in real life. So that's kind of where I found Meg. And since then, she has shown up for me |
| 1:42.6 | in ways that I don't think she even realized. |
| 1:44.7 | I shared a little bit with her already. |
| 1:46.4 | But essentially, when I was in the process of having to regain weight and stop dieting |
| 1:53.5 | and going through that discomfort and a lot of that fat phobia and fears, I realized that |
| 2:00.3 | when she was showing up in my feed, I was |
| 2:03.1 | feeling peace. I was feeling like it was going to be okay. And that if this woman who existed so |
| 2:10.3 | proudly in her fat body, then I could be okay with gaining weight and owning whatever it was |
| 2:15.6 | going to look like and whatever my body was going to look like |
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