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There are three things you dont want to be in American these days 1 A chain smoker 2 A suspected terrorist and 3 Overweight. Sometimes it seems even smokers and terror suspects get more sympathy than overweight people who are often cruelly stigmatized by our Atkins-crazed carb counting your body is a wonderland culture.
But some people are fat and they are OK with that. Fed up with the publics obsession about her weight Kirstie Alley turned the tables on the tabloids and paparazzi by announcing she would take on the topic herself in a new TV show-- Fat Actress.
By going on the offensive against her critics Alley joins a growing group of people who know they are overweight and say they are fine with being fat. Alley whose show is in development with ShowTime said the magazines treated her weight gain like a tragedy but that she is happy with the person she is.
Tragedies in my mind would be like AIDS starvation-illiteracy-child abuse the 53-year-old actress told People magazine. Enough with the diet talk they say. They are tired of the message from society that the only ideal body shape is a thin one and they are sick of being bombarded with news about the latest diet and weight-loss surgery and obesity reports.
Leading the way toward a less diet-obsessed world are fat activists who speak out about the cultures treatment of fat people and their rejection of it. The word FAT is still very very scary for people said Wendy Shanker a 32 year old writer in New York who recently penned The Fat Girls Guide to Life a book about her struggles with weight loss and her decision to give up on dieting. I am a fat person but I am not an evil person. I won’t eat you. Shanker said she was initially worried that her book would be poorly received because she used the world FAT but she was surprised when she got a strong positive reaction.
Everybody just seems to be so fed up with weight loss. I think people are just tired of it Shanker said. Shankers self-acceptance came after dieting and struggling with her weight in her 20s. After spending almost $10,000 at the Duke Diet and Fitness Center and losing only 2 pounds Shanker decided she’d had enough. I realized I’ve got to use a different number than what is on the scale to determine my health. Maybe there is a way to pursue fitness and health that is not tied to the size of my ass.
She started looking for other ways to be healthy such as exercising and eating well without fixating on pounds. In Chicago a group of women who describe themselves as fat activists are starting a program to help teens who identify themselves as fat be happy in their bodies. They are calling it PHAT CAMP.
Kim Paulus a therapist who is helping to develop Phat Camp uses the word fat to describe herself and says its empowering. The word FAT is treated in society as something morally wrong she says and using other phrases such as husky plus size voluptuous or overweight just plays into that stereotype.
Lisa Breisch a therapist in Rockford who heads the Chicago chapter of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance says there are stages to size acceptance that can take a long time for people to achieve. NAAFA can help people to become more comfortable with who they are. She also teaches a class at the College Of DuPage called Body Image and the Larger Woman.
It does take an investment of a few years to really understand the brainwashing of society and to really live life in the body one has Breisch said.
There are three things you dont want to be in American these days 1 A chain smoker 2 A suspected terrorist and 3 Overweight. Sometimes it seems even smokers and terror suspects get more sympathy than overweight people who are often cruelly stigmatized by our Atkins-crazed carb counting your body is a wonderland culture.
But some people are fat and they are OK with that. Fed up with the publics obsession about her weight Kirstie Alley turned the tables on the tabloids and paparazzi by announcing she would take on the topic herself in a new TV show-- Fat Actress.
By going on the offensive against her critics Alley joins a growing group of people who know they are overweight and say they are fine with being fat. Alley whose show is in development with ShowTime said the magazines treated her weight gain like a tragedy but that she is happy with the person she is.
Tragedies in my mind would be like AIDS starvation-illiteracy-child abuse the 53-year-old actress told People magazine. Enough with the diet talk they say. They are tired of the message from society that the only ideal body shape is a thin one and they are sick of being bombarded with news about the latest diet and weight-loss surgery and obesity reports.
Leading the way toward a less diet-obsessed world are fat activists who speak out about the cultures treatment of fat people and their rejection of it. The word FAT is still very very scary for people said Wendy Shanker a 32 year old writer in New York who recently penned The Fat Girls Guide to Life a book about her struggles with weight loss and her decision to give up on dieting. I am a fat person but I am not an evil person. I won’t eat you. Shanker said she was initially worried that her book would be poorly received because she used the world FAT but she was surprised when she got a strong positive reaction.
Everybody just seems to be so fed up with weight loss. I think people are just tired of it Shanker said. Shankers self-acceptance came after dieting and struggling with her weight in her 20s. After spending almost $10,000 at the Duke Diet and Fitness Center and losing only 2 pounds Shanker decided she’d had enough. I realized I’ve got to use a different number than what is on the scale to determine my health. Maybe there is a way to pursue fitness and health that is not tied to the size of my ass.
She started looking for other ways to be healthy such as exercising and eating well without fixating on pounds. In Chicago a group of women who describe themselves as fat activists are starting a program to help teens who identify themselves as fat be happy in their bodies. They are calling it PHAT CAMP.
Kim Paulus a therapist who is helping to develop Phat Camp uses the word fat to describe herself and says its empowering. The word FAT is treated in society as something morally wrong she says and using other phrases such as husky plus size voluptuous or overweight just plays into that stereotype.
Lisa Breisch a therapist in Rockford who heads the Chicago chapter of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance says there are stages to size acceptance that can take a long time for people to achieve. NAAFA can help people to become more comfortable with who they are. She also teaches a class at the College Of DuPage called Body Image and the Larger Woman.
It does take an investment of a few years to really understand the brainwashing of society and to really live life in the body one has Breisch said.