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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: From her earliest years, Sofie was taught that food was bad and that her body was very wrong.
Chapter 2: Sofie’s entire world shifted when she finally realized she could truly love her body.
Chapter 3: Sofie started noticing just how widespread fatphobia is in the media, pop culture, and the beauty industry.
Chapter 4: Dieting doesn’t work—except to enrich the weight-loss industry.
Chapter 5: It’s a myth that being fat makes you unhealthy.
Chapter 6: Fat people face persistent discrimination and hostility that are deeply damaging to their mental and physical health.
Chapter 7: There are practical steps you can take to combat fatphobia in the world around you.
Chapter 8: You can learn to cherish and celebrate your body in our fatphobic world.
Description
In Happy Fat (2019) Sofie Hagen reveals how painful it is to grow up fat in a society filled with prejudice and discrimination. She dispels entrenched myths about fatness, arguing that the correlation between being fat and being unhealthy has been misrepresented and that fatphobia – rather than fatness – is the dangerous social epidemic that we as a society need to challenge.
Who Should Listen
- Comedy lovers who want to learn more about the life of a funny, fresh voice
- Fat activists looking for resources on how to deal with fatphobia
- People curious about the commercial interests that fuel the weight-loss industry