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There are No Gold Stars for Packing Light!
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There are No Gold Stars for Packing Light!

Plus mistaken for pregnant (again), Corinne's airplane survival guide and other fat travel hacks.

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We are Virginia Sole-Smith and Corinne Fay, and it’s time for your Indulgence Gospel. And today we’re talking all things Fat Travel!

We’ll be answering your questions, sharing travel hacks, and just getting into the nitty gritty of how to be a fat person going places in the world.

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Episode 162 Transcript

Virginia

Okay, so I have a quick vent—a rant, if you will—before we get into questions, about being a fat person in public. Which is this: In the last three weeks, I have been mistaken for pregnant twice by strangers. 

This is something that has happened my whole life, as you know, as we’ve discussed on the pod and in essays many times. And then, it didn’t happen for a long time. And I thought I was out, Corinne. I thought I was done with it. I thought I was old enough and fat enough that I could just present as a fat lady past her reproductive prime.

But apparently not.

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Burnt Toast by Virginia Sole-Smith
The Burnt Toast Podcast
Weekly conversations about how we dismantle diet culture and fatphobia, especially through parenting, health and fashion. (But non-parents like it too!) Hosted by Virginia Sole-Smith, journalist and author of THE EATING INSTINCT and the forthcoming FAT KID PHOBIA.