“Why I’m no longer BodyPosiPanda” with Megan Jayne Crabbe

Should I Delete That?

Alex Light & Em Clarkson

Society & Culture, Unknown

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

It’s time to start taking up space…

This week, we’re joined by an icon of the internet and one of our favourite content creators - Megan Jayne Crabbe.

Megan shot to fame under the handle BodyPosiPanda, becoming a leading force in the body positivity space online. Nearly a decade later, she has stepped away from that username and in this episode, she tells us why.

We speak honestly about the pressures of online visibility, the toll it took on her self-esteem, and what it really means to show up as herself online.

We also chat about the body positivity movement’s rise and fall, the Ozempic era, and why Megan believes we need radical authenticity.

Megan’s new book We Don’t Make Ourselves Smaller Here is an insightful and empowering guide for dealing with adversity and embracing authenticity in all areas of our lives - encouraging us to exist as our biggest, most unapologetic and most whole selves. It’s out on Thursday 26th June - you can get your copy here!

Follow @meganjaynecrabbe on Instagram

If you'd like to get in touch, you can email us on [email protected]

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Should I Delete That is produced by Faye Lawrence

Studio Manager: Dex Roy

Video Editor: Celia Gomez

Social Media Manager: Sarah English

Music: Alex Andrew

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by the Audible Original Comedy podcast, Mistresses.
0:04.5	We have a brand new podcast from Audible to talk about, and it sounds so good.
0:08.4	This brand new, Audible, original reclaims the stories of six women from history who are once dismissed as the other woman.
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0:28.3	everything you were told about these mistresses. It's cool that this podcast is reclaiming the word
0:33.2	instead of defining these women by their relationships with men, it dives into their actual lives.
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0:57.6	still a huge stigma around men's mental health. And too often, men are kind of expected to be strong
1:03.7	and not express how they're feeling. But I think we all know that ignoring mental health does not
1:09.3	make it go away. It just makes things harder.
1:12.5	It's really, really important that we encourage the people in our lives to find help and open up about their mental health and let them know that it's okay to struggle and it's okay to ask for and accept help.
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1:28.2	ourselves, but for all the people around us and the people that we care about. Whether it's talking
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