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Virginia Sole-Smith’s new book, ‘Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture,’ takes an unflinching look at fatphobia and how it affects our collective ideas about health

It seems pertinent that on the morning of my interview with Virginia Sole-Smith, the author of Fat Talk: Coming of Age in Diet Culture, I find my nine-year-old

Virginia Sole Smith sat down with SheKnows to talk her book 'Fat Talk' and raising kids without anti-fat bias.

“When we teach our children that their bodies need to be small to be good, we are also teaching them that their bodies need to be controlled. They learn that left to their own devices; bodies are untrustworthy, unpredictable, and dangerous.” (Fat Talk, Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture, Sole-Smith, 2023) Mental health is […]

Parenting advice on sexist FILs, food anxiety, and feeling “normal” after birth.

Virginia Sole-Smith/Instagram(NEW YORK) -- Children are often exposed to diet culture from a young age and its negative impacts can be long-lasting, according to author Virginia Sole-Smith. Sole-Smith is the author of a new book titled Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture, which takes a closer look at how kids are exposed to body shaming, diet culture, fatphobia and more. Young people are listening and the pressure to look a certain way starts early, Sole-Smith told ABC News Good Morni...

Virginia Sole-Smith/Instagram(NEW YORK) -- Children are often exposed to diet culture from a young age and its negative impacts can be long-lasting, according to author Virginia Sole-Smith. Sole-Smith is the author of a new book titled Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture, which takes a closer look at how kids are exposed to body shaming, diet culture, fatphobia and more. Young people are listening and the pressure to look a certain way starts early, Sole-Smith told ABC News Good Morni...

How to change the conversation around food, fatness, and diet culture.

(NEW YORK) -- Children are often exposed to diet culture from a young age and its negative impacts can be long-lasting, according to author Virginia Sole-Smith. Sole-Smith is the author of a new book titled Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture, which takes a closer look at how kids are exposed to

Virginia Sole-Smith/Instagram(NEW YORK) -- Children are often exposed to diet culture from a young age and its negative impacts can be long-lasting, according to author Virginia Sole-Smith. Sole-Smith is the author of a new book titled Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture, which takes a closer look at how kids are exposed to body shaming, diet culture, fatphobia and more. Young people are listening and the pressure to look a certain way starts early, Sole-Smith told ABC News Good Morni...