Fat Girl Walking: Sex, Food, Love, and Being Comfortable in Your Skin . . . Every Inch of It

Brittany Gibbons

May 2015 · HarperCollins

About this ebook

A hilarious memoir in essays about love, sex, marriage, motherhood, bikinis, and loving your body from the acclaimed blogger and body image advocate.

Brittany Gibbons has been a plus size her whole life. But instead of hiding herself in the shadows of thinner women, Brittany became a wildly popular blogger and national spokesmodel—known for stripping on stage at TedX and standing in Times Square in a bikini on national television, and making skinny people everywhere uncomfortable.

Talking honestly about size and body image on her popular blog, brittanyherself.com, she has ignited a national conversation. Now in her first book, she shares hilarious and painfully true stories about her life as a weird overweight girl growing up in rural Ohio, struggling with dating and relationships, giving the middle finger to dieting, finding love with a man smaller than her, accidentally having three kids, and figuring out the secret to loving her curves and becoming a nationally recognized body image advocate. And there’s sex, lots of it!

Fat Girl Walking isn’t a diet book. It isn’t one of those former fat people memoirs about how someone battled, and won, in the fight against fat. Brittany doesn’t lose all the weight and reveal the happy, skinny girl that’s been hiding inside her. Instead, she reminds us that being chubby doesn’t mean you’ll end up alone, unhappy, or the subject of a cable medical show. What’s important is learning to love your shape. With her infectious humor and soul-baring honesty, Fat Girl Walking reveals a life full of the same heartbreak, joy, oddity, awkwardness, and wonder as anyone else’s. Just with better snacks.

Ratings and reviews

I switched from device to device reading this book as I fluttered about doing my daily chores as well as going to the bathroom. From phone to tablet to computer I soared through this book and I feel like it genuinely changed me. I walked around in a baggy sweatshirt and just a plain pair of black undies and for the first time in a while I actually felt cute! As a fat girl, it's hard to love yourself, but her story helped me find my inner beauty.

Very real and relatable. Laughed out loud many times. Can't wait to read more from this author. Her perspective really helped me to be more confident in myself, not only as a plus size woman but simply as a woman.

Being plus size for the majority of the 31 years I've been alive, I was able to relate to everything in this book!! Brittany is freaking hilarious and makes you laugh at things you probably wouldn't say out loud. Great read, I would totally recommend it.

About the author

Brittany Gibbons writes the blog Brittanyherself.com and is the curator of the Facebook group The Curvy Girl Guide, a plus-size model, and a nationally recognized body image advocate. She is also a mother of three and lives with her family and adoring husband in Ohio.