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A review by skudiklier
Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture by Virginia Sole-Smith
challenging
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
If I could give this book more than five stars, I would. I think everyone should read it, but especially anyone who spends a lot of time around children, or may have kids one day. This book both explains and debunks a lot of myths around fatness and fatphobia, and also gives practical advice and tools for how to talk about and address these issues. When I was only a quarter of the way through this book, I knew I was going to ask my husband to read it, which I almost never do. It just feels like such a crucial starting place for any conversations around food, weight, and body image, especially with regard to issues we're definitely going to run into when raising kids. I'm so grateful for this book and couldn't recommend it enough.
Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Fatphobia
Moderate: Bullying, Sexism, Medical content, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Child abuse, Death, Racism, Vomit, Pregnancy, and Classism