When she was young, Victoria, my fiancée, wanted to be many things. A soccer star. A US Senator. A famous actor. A fashion model. She doesn’t play on the same team as Alex Morgan, and she’s not yet serving alongside Alex Padilla, but for the last few years, Vic has been making increasingly good money as a model. Specifically, she’s a plus-size
I finally subscribed to your substack so I could read this whole post, with which I agree wholeheartedly. At the start of the pandemic, I was also a 2X but NOT well-proportioned (my weight gain over the preceding 8 or 10 years was due to my nightly habit of drinking a bottle of wine and then some). Out of sheer terror over the virus, I stopped drinking in hopes of getting healthier and, in the process, I've lost about 50 pounds in the last 15 months. I feel so much better now, likely a function of not being constantly hungover, but tbh it's also a relief to feel less judged out in the world. You're not kidding when you point out that anti-fat bias is one of the last socially acceptable bases for intolerance and judgment (masquerading a "concern for your health" when it's really a visceral disgust over fat bodies). I don't know if you listen to podcasts, but you might enjoy Maintenance Phase by Aubrey Gordon and Michael Hobbes. They deconstruct our fat-phobic diet culture in a nuanced way and are a joy to listen to. Anyhow, great post!
I finally subscribed to your substack so I could read this whole post, with which I agree wholeheartedly. At the start of the pandemic, I was also a 2X but NOT well-proportioned (my weight gain over the preceding 8 or 10 years was due to my nightly habit of drinking a bottle of wine and then some). Out of sheer terror over the virus, I stopped drinking in hopes of getting healthier and, in the process, I've lost about 50 pounds in the last 15 months. I feel so much better now, likely a function of not being constantly hungover, but tbh it's also a relief to feel less judged out in the world. You're not kidding when you point out that anti-fat bias is one of the last socially acceptable bases for intolerance and judgment (masquerading a "concern for your health" when it's really a visceral disgust over fat bodies). I don't know if you listen to podcasts, but you might enjoy Maintenance Phase by Aubrey Gordon and Michael Hobbes. They deconstruct our fat-phobic diet culture in a nuanced way and are a joy to listen to. Anyhow, great post!