Fat Chicks Rule

As Always Fat Chicks Rule!

Here are some cool fat chicks!

I love this gang! Grrr...

Igigi has a lovely article on Miss Plus America Online clothing story Igigi (sizes 14-32)  is also the sponsor.

Go from Barbie envy to embracing the body you have

Mo'Nique celebrates beauty of plus-size

To my friends in North East, Midwest, and west coast, keep cool.  Remember us fatties are hot hot hot!

Betty the Ugly

This fall ABC presents "Betty the Ugly" (or Ugly Betty) starting America Ferrera (Real Women have Curves) about a 'homely' woman trying to succeed in the fashion world.  It looks promising except that America is far from homely, she's actually extremely gorgerous.  However if it does succeed it will show that a Latina and a fat woman can lead a drama.  In fact this show maybe the first  television drama show lead by a fat chick.

To go to it's home page go here.

See someone wants our money but others don't like us in their towns.

In 2005, the Plus-Size Segment Was Valued at Roughly $32 Billion, Accounting for over 75% of the Total Plus-Size, Petite and Maternity Wear Market

And if you are in the market to find a place to live in a thin city, Money Magazine has estimated the cities with the lowest BMI's.

Clothing

Excuse the ramblings of the post as I am exhausted from the weekend.

Saturday and Sunday was the fat girl flea market.   I was there on Sunday selling my book.  It was absolutely marvelous.  One of the few places I don't mind going even if there is a crowd.  There is great camaraderie among the shoppers and I often find that people will pass outfits around no matter how great they are if they think someone else will look better in it.  I missed the rush this year.  I was in Philly selling my book.  Unfortunately I didn't do that well.  Luckily a lot of people came to my table and mentioned how they had already bought the book.

Sunday at the Flea was a little better.  Although I learned that the Torrid in Staten Island had closed :-(  I did have a lot of people come by and say they bought the book and loved it.  It makes me feel good to help other women.

I got a lot of clothes for about $45 including a Torrid Skirt, a suede jacket, many tops and lots of jeans.  I don't know if I'll keep everything but it was $5 bags at the end of the day so if I don't want them I can always redonate next year.   I don't have to do much shopping until the next year.  I wish it was more than once a year in more than one state.    Judging by this article we are going to need a lot more.

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Fat Chicks Rule!

Get your bodacious butt to New York City this Saturday and Sunday for the Fat Girl's Flea Market Not only is it fabulous, supportive and a whole lot of fun, but yours truly will be doing a reading there as well as selling books on Sunday at 12. $2 of every book I sell goes to NoLose.  If you already own a copy bring it and I'd love to sign it.  The admission is $8 and well worth it. 

For those of you in Philly, I will be selling/signing my books at Philly Bash

Also I've killed my Death to dieting blog and the entries have been incorporated into this blog.  I've decided to try to set up a fact sheet on my website.

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Lara