Fat Girl Walking by Brittany Gibbons

Fat Girl Walking by Brittany Gibbons

Told through a series of larger-than-life snapshots, Fat Girl Walking is 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.

Brittany Gibbons manages the Facebook group CurvyGirlGuide.com and publishes the award-winning humor blog BrittanyHerself.com. She gave a TED talk on beauty reinvention in 2011 and is the author of the New York Times bestseller Fat Girl Walking: Sex, Food, Love, and Feeling Good in Your Own Skin... Each and every inch of it. Her work has appeared in a variety of newspapers and websites, including the New York Times, Huffington Post, Redbook, Woman's Day magazine, Marie Claire, Los Angeles Times, The Stir, and Babble. Brittany also presents Last Call Brittany, a weekly Google discussion show, and Girl's Girls, a weekly podcast. Brittany, her husband, and their three children live in Ohio.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780062343048
ISBN 10	0062343041
Title	Fat Girl Walking
Author	Brittany Gibbons
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	2016-03-08
Number of pages	240
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.