It was thrilling, watching Whitney, a plus size model, win America’s Next Top Model. I felt a strong solidarity with “Claudia” (as portrayed by Sara Rue) the curvy secretary on Less Than Perfect.  I felt like she was my almost twin being “chubby” like me.   I would think to myself “go fatties!” [...]

It’s funny how preferences work. Sometimes the things that bother us about other people are the exact things that make other people adore them. The things we cannot stand about ourselves are things other people like. I have a friend with this wonderful, loud laugh that comes from her very soul. She doesn’t like it; [...]

If you don’t read the Frisky, I suggest you do. It’s way better than this blog, and it looks much better too. It’s more like a magazine, not only in the look, but in it’s content as well. You get the feeling that the Frisky has an office with a conference room, a staff of writers [...]

You can always tell what is interesting to the lowest common denominators of the world by the subject lines in your spam. While filters catch all my spam email, periodically, I have to moderate the comments for this blog, a small percentage of which are spam. Currently, the world is abuzz with interest in (as [...]

We have gotten the message (how could we not?) that we are not ok because our bodies are bigger. We spend too much time apologizing for it, trying to be smaller, less visible, less everything so as to try and appease the powers that be. Nice things, pleasurable things, delicious experiences? Those are for the [...]

Special thanks to BBW Deluxe reader Lynne, for the heads up on this bit by ABC news, featuring fellow bloggers, and dishy big girls Marianne Kirby of The Rotund and Gabrielle Gregg of Young Fat and Fabulous.
Having dated a number of self-loathing BBW, it’s very refreshing to see beautiful women like these not bowing to [...]

Few things disgust me as much as seeing a “No Fat Chicks” sticker displayed on a vehicle. More often than not, it appears on a domestic model pick-up. The choice of vehicle in itself makes a statement that can be telling about the driver, but as if that wasn’t enough, how about an overtly rude display? [...]

“Jumbo, go away. Jumbo, go away.” Those were the lyrics to a song written about me by two boys in my fifth grade class. Three simple words, sung in repetition, whenever I was within earshot. Just three words that on their own were completely innocent, but combined would cause my face to burn from embarrassment [...]

As a woman, I am susceptible to the pressures of the airbrushed, tanned and perpetually “perfect” women in the media. I have been in front of the mirror hating every last inch of what I see. Picking apart my stomach, thighs and upper arms, I have slowly tortured myself. But through some therapy, a good [...]