Fat Girl Book Club

The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf with Michelle Vina-Baltsas

Episode Summary

While this book was super intense, Michelle and I had a really great chat and we covered a lot of ground. An overarching theme was loving your ageing body but some of the other topics included: -Michelle’s body acceptance journey -Body acceptance in an ageing body -Why Michelle picked this book -The Beauty Myth in a corporate environment -What The Beauty Myth is -Beauty, ageing and invisibility -The Iron Maiden as a metaphor for The Beauty Myth -Diet culture and The Beauty Myth -The use of language in The Beauty Myth -How The Beauty Myth affects men -The discomfort of challenging mainstream beliefs -What things have changed since this book was written -The role of social media in our beauty obsessed world -The importance of women supporting women -Thinking about the intention behind your beauty routine Please join me in just listening to Michelle's infectious laugh throughout this discussion! I loved it so much. Enjoy and keep reading everyone!

Episode Notes

While this book was super intense, Michelle and I had a really great chat and we covered a lot of ground.  An overarching theme was loving your ageing body but some of the other topics included:

Please join me in just listening to Michelle's infectious laugh throughout this discussion!  I loved it so much.  

 

LINKS

Michelle's website

Michelle's FB Group: The No Diet Sisterhood

Michelle's Instagram

Joyful Movement at Last Program

Your Better Body Image Checklist

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