Fat Girl Book Club

Beauty Sick by Renee Engeln with Vania Phitidis Part 2

Episode Summary

This is the second part of my interview with Vania Phitidis about Beauty Sick. This book was so good and so eye-opening that I could not cut any of it. In this episode we continue our discussion and cover: * The importance of having support on a body acceptance journey * What Beauty Sick means * The cause and perpetrators of beauty sickness * The negative power of symbolic annihilation * How social media perpetuates the cycle of body monitoring * The inversion effect and how this impacts the way we see women * What we can do to combat beauty sickness * How media literacy is not actually helpful * How being a feminist is not protection against beauty sickness * The reason why body connection is so important

Episode Notes

This is the second part of my interview with Vania Phitidis about Beauty Sick. This book was so good and so eye-opening that I could not cut any of it. In this episode we continue our discussion and cover:

Vania's website https://peacefuleating.co.uk

Vania's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/peacefuleatinguk/

Vania's Facebook https://www.facebook.com/PeacefulEating/

Renee Engeln's Ted Talk https://youtu.be/63XsokRPV_Y

Jenn's Website www.iwishiwereme.com