Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls is a manifesto and call to arms for people of all sizes and ages. With her trademark wit, veteran blogger and advocate Jes Baker calls people everywhere to embrace a body-positive worldview, changing perceptions about weight, and making mental health a priority.
Alongside notable guest essayists, Jes shares personal experiences paired with in-depth research in a way that is approachable, digestible, and empowering. Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls is an invitation to reject fat prejudice, fight body-shaming at the hands of the media, and join this life-changing movement with one step: change the world by loving your body.
Among the many Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls that you don’t want to miss:
1. It’s Possible to Love Your Body (Today. Now.)
2. You Can Train Your Brain to Play Nice
3. Your Weight Is Not a Reflection Of Your Worth
4. Changing Your Tumblr Feed Will Change Your Life
5. Salad Will Not Get You to Heaven
6. Cheesecake Will Not Send You to Hell
If you’re a person with a body, this book is for you.
Life changing experience!!!! This book is life changing! A must read for every person struggling with body shame. I want Jes to be my new best friend!!!! Thank you so much for this book!!!!
Full of passion. From the heart. Direct. No B.S. Was sooooo excited to get my copies last week. I bought a few to give away to my girlfriends. I can’t help but think how this book would have been so life changing for me when I was a fat pre-teen. I wish this book could be required reading for all young men and women in junior high. I want them all to read it so they can learn sooner than I did that I am LOVEABLE and VALUABLE no matter if I am a size 2 or a size 32. And to help young people to not take any s*** from family or strangers who…
4.5 Stars Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls is an interesting, important book on the body love movement that speaks to everyone, not just the titular “fat girls.” Author Jes Baker fearlessly tackles the body positive movement, taking on not just sizeism, but racism, classism, ableism, and more. Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls encourages women and men of all sizes to challenge what has become completely ingrained in our society: the idea that one type of body (whatever that may be) is the…