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Fat Chick Lit

By: Rakisha White on 03/18/10 @ 5:14 pm

A review of Danielle Steel’s latest book, Big Girl, which reportedly “celebrates the virtues of unconventional beauty while exploring deeply resonant issues of weight, self-image, sisterhood, and family.”




Checking in with the Fat

By: Rakisha White on 03/3/10 @ 7:20 pm

So, it’s been awhile. I have several stokes in the fire, but I have been paying attention. I wanted to give you a head’s up of what I have planned for the month:
1. A review of The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen, which is about a painfully shy chubby 27-year-old who will be set [...]




A Little Fat Check In

By: Rakisha White on 02/17/10 @ 8:36 pm

Has anyone checked out the newest season of Celebrity Fit Club: Boot Camp? The part I saw yesterday was surprisingly effective. It focused more on the shedding of emotional weight and not physical weight. Each celebrity was instructed to bring something that represented something negative in their past, and then let it go by tossing [...]




January’s Big Media Round Up

By: Rakisha White on 02/2/10 @ 7:27 pm

January 2010 started off with a bang for the fatties, and I’m not just talking about Mo’Nique’s Golden Globe win and the semi-scandal over her hairy legs. Because of V Magazine’s wonderful size issue that featured fashion spreads with plus-size models, there was a slew of media (and [...]




A Big Fat Movie Review

By: Rakisha White on 12/26/09 @ 5:31 pm

The Princess and the Frog is more than just another princess movie for a mom. It is a movie that broadens the minds of her daughters’, and allows them to related culturally and racially to a beautiful princess.




Big Fat Year in Review, part 1

By: Rakisha White on 11/17/09 @ 10:26 pm

I am truly a product of the pop culture I ingest and the former industry I used to inhabit, so the calendar year is never complete without a year in review story running in November! I‘ve been racking my brains, and scanning the internet for some of the biggest FAT stories of 2009. [...]




Marie Claire Chews the Fat

By: Rakisha White on 11/11/09 @ 11:00 pm

A review of the October 2009 issue of Marie Claire magazine, which is surprisingly pro body-acceptance.




B, Please Just Sit on It!

By: Rakisha White on 11/10/09 @ 11:07 pm

An open letter to Ms. Beyonce.




Fat Glam

By: Rakisha White on 10/12/09 @ 10:22 pm

A review of the November 2009 article in Glamour about plus size models.




Beautiful Fat

By: Rakisha White on 10/5/09 @ 1:32 pm

Check out the plus-size Giselle, full-figured and sexy Fluvia. I love this picture of her. She looks awesome and sexy, and she has belly fat hanging over her panties. Go ahead with your bad self, Fluvia!

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