White World, Black Body
Truth Be Told: Time to Thrive
American Public Media
4.3 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Wise Ones Virgie Tovar and Chloe Hilliard move in this world as big women. They’ve faced covert fatphobia from doctors and co-workers and even experienced it on dates. Being a fat person of color means confronting the intersection of being unseen and taking up too much space. You don’t have to stand there.
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| 0:00.0 | If you know that Oprah Winfrey can do no wrong. |
| 0:05.0 | Okay. |
| 0:07.0 | Now, let me tell you. |
| 0:10.0 | So in 1998, when she rolled out that little red wagon filled with a plastic garbage bag of pure fat, |
| 0:17.1 | I think it was like 67 pounds. |
| 0:19.2 | 67 pounds. |
| 0:20.7 | I was with her. |
| 0:21.9 | Jimmy, is this gross or what? |
| 0:25.0 | It is amazing to me that I can't lift it, but I used to carry it around every day. |
| 0:29.0 | I was always a chubby kid, so I was all about every diet Oprah introduced us to. |
| 0:34.1 | There was the South Beach Diet, her Make the Connection Book, which I still love by the way, |
| 0:39.5 | and her best life diet. |
| 0:41.1 | There were so many, and I was about all of them. But 30 years later, I really |
| 0:46.0 | thought we would have moved beyond talks about weight loss methods. And yet, I love bread. |
| 0:54.0 | I love bread. |
| 0:56.0 | I now just manage it. |
| 0:58.0 | Here is my beloved Oprah still talking about losing weight. |
| 1:02.0 | And she just extended her partnership for another five years |
| 1:04.6 | with W. W. That's the new name for Weight Watchers. That's the genius of this program. |
| 1:10.3 | I lost 26 pounds and I have eaten bread every single day. |
| 1:19.0 | I identify with Oprah so much and so it makes me sad to think that we are both still going |
| 1:25.1 | through this battle with body image. It makes me think will I be spending the |
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