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Told through a series of larger-than-life snapshots, a hilarious memoir in essays about love, sex, marriage, motherhood, bikinis, and loving your body, no matter what size you are from the acclaimed blogger and body image advocate.
Brittany Gibbons has been a plus size her whole life. But instead of hiding herself in the shadows of thinner women, Brittany became a wildly popular blogger and national spokesmodel--known for stripping on stage at TedX and standing in Times Square in a bikini on national television, and making skinny people everywhere uncomfortable.
Talking honestly about size and body image on her popular blog, brittanyherself.com, she has ignited a national conversation. Now in her first book, she shares hilarious and painfully true stories about her life as a weird overweight girl growing up in rural Ohio, struggling with dating and relationships, giving the middle finger to dieting, finding love with a man smaller than her, accidentally having three kids, and figuring out the secret to loving her curves and becoming a nationally recognized body image advocate. And there's sex, lots of it!
Fat Girl Walking isn't a diet book. It isn't one of those former fat people memoirs about how someone battled, and won, in the fight against fat. Brittany doesn't lose all the weight and reveal the happy, skinny girl that's been hiding inside her. Instead, she reminds us that being chubby doesn't mean you'll end up alone, unhappy, or the subject of a cable medical show. What's important is learning to love your shape. With her infectious humor and soul-baring honesty, Fat Girl Walking reveals a life full of the same heartbreak, joy, oddity, awkwardness, and wonder as anyone else's. Just with better snacks.
Author Notes
Brittany Gibbons writes the blog Brittanyherself.com and is the curator of the Facebook group The Curvy Girl Guide, a plus-size model, and a nationally recognized body image advocate. She is also a mother of three and lives with her family and adoring husband in Swanton, Ohio.
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Library Journal Review
Blogger Gibbons (brittanyherself.com) has struggled with her weight and body image her whole life. She's been teased, picked on, and judged for her size. Not liking any of her career options, she started a blog in which she writes about size, body image, and her role as a mother and wife. As the blog's popularity grew, she pitched an idea for a press tour that involved standing in New York's Times Square wearing only her bathing suit. Because of her willingness to be a curvy girl who takes off her clothes in public, she has started to change the conversation about body image from fat-shaming to body acceptance and has begun to overcome personal adversity. Through her role as Internet spokesmodel for women everywhere, Gibbons has learned to love her body and be comfortable in her own skin. -VERDICT This memoir provides an honest look into one woman's struggle with her weight and body image. More than that, it shows women of all shapes and sizes how to accept themselves and others for who they are. Laugh-out-loud funny and brutally honest, Gibbons's account is sure to please fans of Jen Lancaster and Laurie Notaro.-Kristen Calvert Nelson, Marion Cty. P.L. Syst., Ocala, FL © Copyright 2015. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| 1 I Was Born a Poor Fat Child | p. 5 |
| 2 Honestly, I Didn't Have a Chance | p. 15 |
| 3 Finding Your Tribe and Other Assholey Feel Good Expressions Your Parents Push On You | p. 29 |
| 4 Secret Girlfriend | p. 47 |
| 5 My Andy Gibbons | p. 63 |
| 6 College, I Don't Know Why I'm Here, Either? | p. 73 |
| 7 Adorably Mental | p. 85 |
| 8 Girl on Girl Interupted | p. 97 |
| 9 Going to the Chapel | p. 109 |
| 10 The Life & Death of Procreation and All tThe Gross Shit in Between | p. 121 |
| 11 The 4th Trimester (The Worst Trimester) | p. 137 |
| 12 Daughters: The Ultimate Mind Fuck | p. 149 |
| 13 Last Cake Ever | p. 163 |
| 14 How to Be Professionally Fat on the Internet | p. 171 |
| 15 The Ted Talk | p. 193 |
| 16 Sex With Fat Girls | p. 199 |
| 17 The Emails | p. 209 |
| 18 Women, We're Ruining Everything | p. 221 |
| Afterword | p. 229 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 231 |
| About The Author | p. 233 |
