Download or read book The Fat Chicks Club written by Catherine Rull and published by Wolfhaus Press. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You’re only a success at a high school reunion if you achieve something no one thought you could. For chubby, straight-A student ISABELLA HARPER, that means a boyfriend and a killer body. Rejected and laughed at in high school by her ultimate crush for being a member of ‘The Fat Chicks’ Club’, the new and improved Isabella has recently returned to Brisbane, Australia after working in London for five years. She’s determined to attend her ten-year class reunion now that she’s a successful lawyer, fifteen kilos lighter, and engaged to a super-hot British investment banker. After all, the best revenge is living well. But within a few weeks of coming home, Isabella’s perfect life starts to crumble. With the reluctant help of her childhood friend, Byron McAllister, she sets her sights on a new date for the reunion—his brother, Keats. Will she have her perfect life back in time for the reunion? Or will living in the past cost her happiness in the future?

Download or read book Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls written by Jes Baker and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls is a manifesto and call to arms for women of all sizes and ages. With smart and spirited eloquence, veteran blogger Jes Baker calls on women to be proud of their bodies, fight against fat-shaming, and embrace a body-positive worldview to change public perceptions and help women maintain mental health. With the same straightforward tone that catapulted her to national attention when she wrote a public letter addressing the sexist comments of Abercrombie & Fitch's CEO, Jes shares personal experiences along with in-depth research in a way that is approachable, digestible, and empowering. Featuring notable guest authors, Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls is an invitation for all women to reject fat prejudice, learn to love their bodies, and join the most progressive, and life-changing revolution there is: the movement to change the world by loving their bodies.

Download or read book Fat Girls Hiking written by Summer Michaud-Skog and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the founder of the Fat Girls Hiking community, this inclusive and inspiring guide to the great outdoors will inspire people of all body types, sizes, abilties, and backgrounds.

Download or read book The Fat Girls Club written by Lila Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you believe it? A member of The Fat Girls Club is about to make her way down the aisle and I'm not talking about food! Think in terms of satin and lace, wedding cakes and invitations to guests. You Are Cordially Invited will bring the series to a rousing head with all the drama and excitement you've come to expect with Angela, Nicki and Sissy. Hold on tight for a bumpy ride before it's time to stand in front of the alter!

Download or read book The Fat Girl Love Club written by Gabby Metzler and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becky Latrice is a 15-year-old girl and Jesus Christ fanfiction author who is forced to live with her conspiracy-believing, weed-smoking, AGNOSTIC grandfather after her mother is thrown in jail. She fights to maintain her righteousness alongside a new onslaught of friends, drugs, and with no help from the Circleville youth group.

Download or read book Fat Girl Walking written by Brittany Gibbons and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Fat Girl s Guide to Life written by Wendy Shanker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thank heavens for Wendy Shanker: She's written a manifesto for all of us who are sick of obsessing over our bodies." -Seventeen Whether you're overweight or over dieting, Wendy will help you stop trying to drop pounds and drop insecurity instead. Wendy Shanker is a fat, healthy, beautiful girl who has simply had enough. Enough of family, friends, co-workers, women's magazines, even strangers on the street, all trying (and failing) to make her thin. She finally decided, "If I can't take it off, I'm going to take it on." With a mandate to change the world-and the energy to do it-Wendy shows how media madness, corporate greed, and even the most well-intentioned loved ones prey on our shrink-to-fit minds, if not our shrink-to-fit bodies. She invites people of all sizes, shapes, and dissatisfactions to trade self-loathing for self-tolerance, celebrity worship for reality reverence, and a carb-free life for a guilt-free Krispy Kreme. In Wendy's wonderfully funny and candid voice, she explores dieting debacles, full-figured fashions, and feminist philosophy while guiding you through exercise clubs, doctor's offices, shopping malls, and even the bedroom. She believes that you can be fit and fat, even as the weight loss industry conspires to make you think otherwise. The Fat Girl's Guide to Life invites you to step off the scale and weigh the issues for yourself.

Download or read book Dietland written by Sarai Walker and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh and provocative debut novel about a reclusive young woman saving up for weight loss surgery when she gets drawn into a shadowy feminist guerilla group called "Jennifer"--equal parts Bridget Jones's Diary and Fight Club

Download or read book Boyfrenemy written by Catherine Rull and published by Wolfhaus Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All is fair in love and war, right? JESS HAUGEN has a big secret. And no, it’s not just her X-rated website for curvy and obese women, nor her dysfunctional family growing up. It’s that she envies her best friend, Isabella Harper’s perfect life. On top of that, she’s been secretly crushing on Isabella’s ex-boyfriend, KEATS McALLISTER since primary school. When Jess becomes Isabella’s maid of honour, it’s her chance to finally spend some time to get to know the reluctant best man, Keats. But he has other plans for the wedding—to break up the happy couple and get Isabella back. And he wants Jess’ help. After all, the frenemy of his frenemy seems like the perfect ally. Now it’s up to Jess to save her frenemy’s wedding by keeping an eye on Keats. It’s a tough job but then again, she’s had her eye on him for years.

Download or read book Besties with Benefits Book 4 of The Fat Chicks Club Series written by Catherine Rull and published by Wolfhaus Press. This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will waiting for the perfect baby-daddy cost her the perfect guy? PENNY CHEN had three words to describe having children: no, thank you! But when her pampered life flashes before her eyes, the thing she regrets most is not having a child of her own. Now she must find her parents' version of the perfect guy, "Mr Three As"-assets, achiever and Asian-to have the baby with. After all, since her parents finance much of her life, it's either their way, or go it alone. BLAKE BARKER wants to have kids too, but as a tattooed, motorbike-riding renovator, he doesn't fit Penny's criteria of a potential husband. He's a simple, hardworking guy with no room in his life for a spoilt snob. But when Penny and Blake find themselves needing each other's help, it becomes harder to ignore a fourth A-attraction. Will they ignore the sparks and stick to their plans, or figure out how to create a new life together?

Download or read book She s Come Undone written by Wally Lamb and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Dolores Price. She's thirteen, wise-mouthed but wounded. Beached like a whale in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the chocolate, crisps and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally rolls into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before really going belly up. In his extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch an incredible ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years. At once a fragile girl and a hard-edged cynic, so tough to love yet so inimitably loveable, Dolores is as poignantly real as our own imperfections.

Download or read book Fat Girl written by Judith Moore and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-03-03 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2005 (Entertainment Weekly) For any woman who has ever had a love/hate relationship with food and with how she looks; for anyone who has knowingly or unconsciously used food to try to fill the hole in his heart or soothe the craggy edges of his psyche, Fat Girl is a brilliantly rendered, angst-filled coming-of-age story of gain and loss. From the lush descriptions of food that call to mind the writings of M.F.K. Fisher at her finest, to the heartbreaking accounts of Moore’s deep longing for family and a sense of belonging and love, Fat Girl stuns and shocks, saddens and tickles. “Searingly honest without affectation… Moore emerged from her hellish upbringing as a kind of softer Diane Arbus, wielding pen instead of camera.”—The Seattle Times “Frank, often funny—intelligent and entertaining.”—People (starred review) “God, I love this book. It is wise, funny, painful, revealing, and profoundly honest.”—Anne Lamott “Judith Moore grabs the reader by the collar, and shakes up our notion of life in the fat lane.”—David Sedaris “Stark… lyrical, and often funny, Judith Moore ambushes you on the very first page, and in short order has lifted you up and broken your heart.”—Newsweek “A slap-in-the-face of a book—courageous, heartbreaking, fascinating, and darkly funny.”—Augusten Burroughs

Download or read book Fat Girls in Black Bodies written by Joy Arlene Renee Cox, Ph.D. and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combatting fatphobia and racism to reclaim a space for womxn at the intersection of fat and Black To be a womxn living in a body at the intersection of fat and Black is to be on the margins. From concern-trolling--"I just want you to be healthy"--to outright attacks, fat Black bodies that fall outside dominant constructs of beauty and wellness are subjected to healthism, racism, and misogynoir. The spaces carved out by third-wave feminism and the fat liberation movement fail at true inclusivity and intersectionality; fat Black womxn need to create their own safe spaces and community, instead of tirelessly laboring to educate and push back against dominant groups. Structured into three sections--"belonging," "resistance," and "acceptance"--and informed by personal history, community stories, and deep research, Fat Girls in Black Bodies breaks down the myths, stereotypes, tropes, and outright lies we've been sold about race, body size, belonging, and health. Dr. Joy Cox's razor-sharp cultural commentary exposes the racist roots of diet culture, healthism, and the ways we erroneously conflate body size with personal responsibility. She explores how to reclaim space and create belonging in a hostile world, pushing back against tired pressures of "going along just to get along," and dismantles the institutionally ingrained myths about race, size, gender, and worth that deny fat Black womxn their selfhood.

Download or read book Fat Angie written by e. E Charlton-Trujillo and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angie overeats to cope with the taunts of the ultra-mean girls, her attempted suicide in front of a packed gym, and the status of her captured war-hero sister, until KC Romance comes to town and sees Angie for who she really is.

Download or read book The Fat Girls Club written by Lila Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicki Cole-It's been five years since her last date. Besides her eight to five job, the only company she keeps is with her friends, Angela, Sissy and Turner Classic Movies. There must be more to life than this and she's determined to find it.Angela Thomas-Strong, sassy and a fighter. But when one deep love leaves her broken and bruised, it places her in a precarious position. Give up on love or die trying.Sissy Bakersfield-A dialysis travel nurse that cares for patients in clinic and hospital settings all over the country. But at the end of the day who cares for her? Sometimes being strong can be very lonely.

Download or read book Fat Chick written by Lorraine Duffy Merkl and published by . This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young woman in the advertising world in New York City knows all the terminology of the New York scene. Her problem is that she is overweight and her personal and professional life are influenced by her weight and appearance. She wins and loses professional positions and boyfriends.

Download or read book 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl written by Mona Awad and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Bunny, a “hilarious, heartbreaking book” (People) about a woman whose life is hijacked by her struggle to conform “Stunning . . . As you watch Lizzie navigate fraught relationships—with food, men, girlfriends, her parents and even with herself—you’ll want to grab a friend and say: ‘Whoa. This. Exactly.’” —Washington Post Growing up in the suburban hell of Misery Saga (a.k.a. Mississauga), Lizzie has never liked the way she looks—even though her best friend Mel says she’s the pretty one. She starts dating guys online, but she’s afraid to send pictures, even when her skinny friend China does her makeup: she knows no one would want her if they could really see her. So she starts to lose. With punishing drive, she counts almonds consumed, miles logged, pounds dropped. She fights her way into coveted dresses. She grows up and gets thin, navigating double-edged validation from her mother, her friends, her husband, her reflection in the mirror. But no matter how much she loses, will she ever see herself as anything other than a fat girl? In her brilliant, hilarious, and at times shocking debut, Mona Awad skewers the body image-obsessed culture that tells women they have no value outside their physical appearance. Brilliant, hilarious, and heartbreaking, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl introduces a vital new voice in fiction. WINNER OF THE AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD FINALIST FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE COLORADO BOOK AWARD FOR LITERARY FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD ARAB AMERICAN BOOK AWARD HONORABLE MENTION FOR FICTION