"Thin White Women Stole the Body-Positive Movement?!" The Realities of Plus Size Fashion & Size Inclusivity w/ Kristine Thompson (@trendycurvy)

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🗓️ 22 June 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Kristine Thompson, aka @TrendyCurvy, is a plus size fashion blogger from Los Angeles with over 1.4M followers on TikTok where she's known for her plus-size fashion halls and style tips. Kristine started a blog in September 2013 with the catch phrase “A Curvy Girl Living in a Trendy World”. Her goal is to show that curvy women can be just as stylish and fabulous as everyone else! She's been featured in Glamour Magazine, Essence Magazine, and is also the founder of Kin by Kristine, a fashion destination for everyday women.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:03.0	Hey guys, I'm Lindsay Carter, the founder of Set Active, and this is my new podcast Ready Set Spill.
0:09.0	Finding the balance between being a mom, running a business, and still maintaining somewhat of a social life
0:14.3	is a constant work in progress. We live in a time where social media glamorizes everything that we do,
0:19.6	but life isn't always a perfectly curated Instagram post, and that's coming from someone who
0:24.5	built their business on a perfectly curated Instagram feed. Nothing here is off limits,
0:29.3	so get ready, get set, because it's time to spill.
0:36.5	Welcome to RealPod. It's your host Victoria Garrick, and this is the podcast where we hold nothing back.
0:42.8	Oh, so we're getting deep, huh? I've really cried for 12 days straight.
0:47.2	Why do I want to be perfect? There's nothing in my life that is perfect.
0:50.8	Every week, I'll bring you honest, unfiltered, and eye-opening conversations to help uncover the
0:56.1	real in all of us. I crave the type of content that you're talking about. I actually felt insecure.
1:01.5	Oh my god, am I going to cry? Let me just unload everything.
1:05.5	New episodes every Wednesday leave those filters at the door, because it's time to get real.
1:11.3	There's so many nuances and details and wormholes to go down when talking and thinking about the
1:30.7	body image community, the body positivity movement, the different people, a part of that, right?
1:36.4	The different body types, the different races, the different backgrounds, the different privileges,
1:40.7	and today's conversation is, well, first of all, I think it's, I'm dare I say, one of my favorite
1:46.8	conversations I've had on RealPod as of late. I was buzzing after this interview. Christine has
1:52.8	just such beautiful energy, and I am obsessed with how honest this discussion was about plus
1:59.6	size fashion, thin white women's steamrolling the body positivity movement. Hashtag, I'm guilty,
2:06.0	and we talk about that today, right? Also, it's just a heartwarming conversation about
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