I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what to do with this blog. I’ve decided that I’m going to rebuild it into a format more conducive to displaying images, just like the one above.

Dear Friends, I have decided that I don’t want to do this anymore. Not as is. Something has to change. When I started last April, I had set out with a catalog of photos, and few opinions on fatty love that I felt like expressing, but as the months have rolled on by, my eyes [...]

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!” as I [...]

In my youth, I sought a place where I made sense and fit into my world. There was little help and fewer role models. I subscribed to plus-size catalogs looking for that woman that looked like me. Those women looked waif and utterly too trim for my body size. I couldn’t turn on the TV [...]

I couldn’t wait to get up today. I was like a child on Christmas morning. While the site has been live for a few days, yesterday was what I considered the official launch date, and I was chomping at the bit to see the stats on the number of visitors. I’m happy to report that [...]

When you want your website to do well, one of the things you do is create ways for people to find it. You sign up with Facebook and other sites, in the hope that people perusing these sites will click on the link to your page. This is a basic strategy behind Social Media Marketing. [...]

In a major marketing coup secured by BBW Deluxe staffers (Ok, it’s just me), we’ve landed an official endorsement from Flickr Rock Star and BBW diva, Dyxie! This is an exciting development for the crew here at BBW Deluxe (me), and is the first step in what we hope will be a long, fruitful relationship. [...]

Did you know that the average American woman weighs 162.9 lbs, and is a size 14? I sure didn’t. I have to really focus to recall a woman I know under 200 lbs. I was just reading an interesting article recently published by the L.A. Times, about the uneasy relationship between the fashion industry and [...]

A famous proverb says “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” I have been doing my best to keep this idea in mind, while finding one way after another to procrastinate the writing of my first post. I bought this domain a year and a half ago, not knowing exactly what I [...]