Fat Girl Walking audiobook

Absolutely amazing. (And this is coming from a person who typically loathes memoirs.) You need to read this. You. Meaning any human with the capability to read and comprehend text. Skinny? Read it. Chubby? Read it. Female? Read it. Male? Read it. Why? I promise you will laugh. But more than that, you will understand what it is like for overweight women. Hopefully with understanding, you will find tolerance, and maybe even acceptance.But..... WARNING: Do not read this in public. You will be liable to get strange looks since uncontrollable laughter may strike at any moment. (view spoiler)[ I was reading while in a crowded waiting room and got to the part with the Ben Wa balls. I was holding my laughter in and it ended up coming out as a really loud snort. Not only did snorting hurt, I received a large number of looks. (hide spoiler)]I could relate to almost every single part of this book. As a plus-sized woman (established in 6th grade), this hit on so many feelings and thoughts that have also went through my head. I laughed a lot, and cried a little, too. I am so thankful that Brittany shares so much with people. It is so refreshing to know that you are not alone. It is so frustrating to be judged by someone who doesn't know your story. Since I know this is going to be a bestseller, hopefully an end will be put to all the shaming, fat or skinny.I received an ARC via the Goodreads First Reads program.

Such a fun and honest book. I have been dealing with my weight since I was in high school, so reading about a fellow "thick" gal and how she has the confidence to do what she needs to do was very rewarding. I enjoyed this a lot.

While I absolutely LOVED the concept....I had a few "well...." moments.Being obese doesn't mean you can't love yourself. As the title says love every inch of your skin and such. I agree.The one thing that I don't think was mentioned was that you don't have to stay that way if YOU don't want to.I was 120 pounds and since I'm was really short and young back then, I felt like every step for me was hard. I could feel my muscles aching when I tried to jog in gym. I was unfit and a little overweight for my age.I loved the book's encouragement, the jokes about your weight (trying to make humor out of every situation) was pretty funny, and the stories themselves were a nice thing to relate a bit to.My note is just that if you WANT to change, you shouldn't be afraid to change. If you love the way you are, you can and should stay the way you are.Skinny, obese, whatever you feel like you are, you should do what makes you feel most comfortable.I didn't like the feeling of my skin being droopy so I worked out. I worked and worked and worked out for months. I wanted to change so I DID change. You don't have to stay the same if you don't want to. Just because people say that you should be 'happy' as you are, we ALL have room for IMPROVEMENT. What you want to improve is up to you.

As a fellow plus-size gal, reading Brittany Gibbons’ Fat Girl Walking: Sex, Food, Love, and Being Comfortable in Your Own Skin...Every Inch Of It was both joyful and surprisingly personal. In Fat Girl Walking, body image advocate and popular blogger, Brittany Gibbons, shares tidbits of her childhood and life, exploring what it means to be a plus-size woman in this modern world.Through laugh-out-loud humor and with unflinching honesty, Gibbons’ memoir and essays are charming, entertaining, deliciously brash, and beautifully profound. Nothing is held back and no topic is off-limits in Fat Girl Walking. From a sometimes screwed-up childhood to bullies, sexuality, mental illness, financial troubles, and more, Gibbons tackles each topic with addicting humor, inspiring confidence, and simple truths. Things that society often ignores in regards to plus size woman (dating, sex, eating disorders, etc), are the things Gibbons bravely brings front and center. I love that this isn’t a diet book, it isn’t the story of how one woman overcame her weight issues or learned to love herself despite her issues. Fat Girl Walking is a celebration of embracing your flaws and imperfections and loving yourself just the way you are. my final thoughts: Fat Girl Walking is the perfect read for anyone who has ever struggled with their weight or for anyone who has simply felt not good enough. You won’t find any cheesy cliches are trite advice in this book, just hilarious stories, refreshing honesty, and a whole lot of inspiration!

Brittany Gibbons is my new obsession and hero.

Loved this book. Just wish I had been able to read it about 65 years ago. It would have been a permanent fixture in my life.

***REVIEW ORIGINALLY POSTED ON WWW.WHATISMUCH.COM*** (Thanks be to Edelweiss for the ARC of this book!) I’d admittedly never heard of Brittany Gibbons before requesting her debut book, Fat Girl Walking, on Edelweiss. But really, the summary made the book sound like something I’d be into, so I hit the submit button and waited. When I was approved to read Fat Girl Walking, I was excited, but I really didn’t know what I was getting myself into. Brittany Gibbons has been plus size her entire life. But as the summary for her book says, this “isn’t a diet book”, and it “isn’t one of those former fat people memoirs about how someone battled, and won, in the fight against fat”. Instead, Fat Girl Walking is a collection of stories pulled straight from Gibbons’s memory about her life as, well, a fat girl. And here’s the thing: There’s NOTHING wrong with that. That’s what we learn by the end of the book. Gibbons is now a super successful blogger and a spokesperson for body positivity, and there’s no doubt in my mind as to why she’s become so popular. She’s funny and smart and outrageous, and I love it. I’m actually kind of annoyed that I’d never heard of her before, with all the time I spend online! As a fellow fat girl, reading Fat Girl Walking made me want to accept myself, accept my body, more than I did before. It’s not an easy feat to do, but Brittany Gibbons made me feel like it’s actually POSSIBLE. I’d definitely recommend this book for any of the women in my life, and for some of the men, too. I feel like Fat Girl Walking is going to be an important addition to the conversation on body positivity and acceptance in this day and age. I’m really glad to have had the chance to read it.

Hysterical. Real life drama and honest talk about weight issues ......while I don't share all of Gibbons views on life, I defiantly admire her take on it.

Fat Girl Walking: Sex, Food, Love, and Being Comfortable in Your Skin...Every Inch of It by Brittany GibbonsHumorous Memoir I don't know how many of you know this, but I have another blog called Starting on Monday. I started it to blog about motherhood, laziness, being chubby, and maybe, hopefully, to write about a diet as I lost weight. 2.5 years later, I'm heavier than ever, and I feel so frustrated, I stopped even posting on the blog. My last post was called "I hate my body". That self-hatred permeates every single aspect of my life.I have read some of Brittany Gibbon's blog, Brittany, herself, and always wished I could feel as beautiful and as good in my skin as she does, but I'm not even close. But it turns out this book was so crazy relatable! Brittany wasn't always comfortable in her skin, she hated herself too. Well, geez, it sounds depressing, but Fat Girl Walking is anything but.I laughed out loud, and cry/laughed at a few points that were just so...me. I have quotes highlighted throughout the book, and I wish I could share them all. It reads like a novel, but it's her life. Brittany is like my perfect best friend, I want to steal her, and hang out all the time (stalker much?) Actually I DID kind of hang out with her almost 2 years ago, with Jasinda Wilder, and Alice Clayton, and Angie from SBC!  I'll have the video at the end of this review if you're interested, of our "Curvy Girls in the Bedroom" chat, despite my laryngitis, I was so honored to be a part of this. It was the only time in my life my weight worked for me!If you have no idea who Brittany is, that's OK. Let me give you an overview. I am the internet's token fat girl. If the internet is still a thing when I'm old and die, all this might be included in my obituary. Brittany Gibbons: The jolly face of plus-size women. Known for taking her clothes off to make political statements and making skinny people everywhere feel uncomfortable." Actually this is bullshit, because I think any average girl can relate to her, skinny or fat, everyone has had an issue with themselves, don't you think? But for me, the keys to my success are just being not slim, making vagina jokes on social media, and having Nigerian men tell me I look pretty and then ask me to accept wire transfers of large sums of money." Brittany is so real. She's not preaching to you, she's not telling you how to lose weight, she is telling you about her life in a way that is so relatable, it's like chatting with a friend. She talks about growing up, getting her period, and then finding boys can boost up her self esteem, and how she fooled around with lots of them (I related to this so much!). She talks about experimenting in college, and of falling in love with her husband. She talks of having kids, and his having a vasectomy.And she talks about her public life. Brittany went on all the morning shows in a bathing suit. She talks about the nasty internet trolls and how the media twists things around. But she does it all with humor and fun, with lots of balls and vagina comments. My vagina was like an empty grocery bag. I peed all the time: when I laughed, when I sneezed, when I ran. I once threw up so violently during a bout of food poisoning that my tampon shot out of me like a nerf bullet" (I had a similar experience while reading Seduction and Snacks, you can read about it here.)It was so nice to read a book from someone who gets you, from putting your hand on your stomach to assure people you weren't fat but pregnant, to never being in any photos so it looks like your kids have no mom, and running to Facebook like a crazy person if someone tags you. From hemorrhoids to only having clitoral orgasms, Brittany is me, only 10 years younger, prettier and funnier.But there is an important message to learn, ESPECIALLY if you have daughters. Life is too short to live with self-loathing. Don't let your kids catch the self-hatred bug. Love yourself and others will too. I was drowning in self-loathing, and the only way I could save her was to save myself." Brittany talks a big game about body confidence now, but you can see that the self-loathing and self esteem issues are still there, lying right under the surface. She's not a narcissist, she's not in love with herself. She is still on this journey of acceptance, and it just made her all the more real to me, and absolutely motivated me to think a little differently.Likes: •I was worried I wouldn't get into it because it wasn't a novel. No issues there, it is a love story with her husband, and with her self. •I laughed out loud so many times, because I could so relate! •I cried for her and laughed at the same time. •I loved knowing that she wasn't always so confident. That she hated herself most of her life as well. •She shared so many really private moments both from her growing up and from her marriage. Her husband must be a saint. Dislikes: •I didn't dislike anything (except the price). But I would have liked some great dressing tips, she is an awesome dresser. •I would have liked a little more on the process of learning to love ones self, and maybe a little more since her attitude has changed about herself, it was very heavy about her "before" and a little light on the "after". Rating 5 stars. Although sex is discussed, there are no sexy scenes.The Down and Dirty:Fat Girl Walking: Sex, Food, Love, and Being Comfortable in Your Skin...Every Inch of It is not a novel, but it reads with the ease of one. It's funny, it's smart, it's relatable to anyone who has any self esteem issues, and for curvier moms with daughters, I think this should be required reading. The book encouraged me to re-start Starting on Monday, and to try some positive self talk instead of the negative crap I spew at the mirror daily. Brittany's stories about growing up were fun and relatable, and her honestly was refreshing. I have never related to a "character" in a book so much, and she's real! I know this is pricey for our little bookie community, but the price is different for memoir type books. I, for one, think it was more than worth the price! Purchase Fat Girl Walking: Sex, Food, Love, and Being Comfortable in Your Skin...Every Inch of It by Brittany GibbonsKindle Audible BN.com iBooksCheck Brittany out on Entertainment Tonight. See her on The Today Show.Check out the episode of Last Call Brittany with Jasinda Wilder, Alice Clayton, Angie from SBC, Amber Doty , me (with laryngitis) and Brittany, herself (pun...that's the name of her blog):https://youtu.be/c8pMp2Ge9wU

Just finished reading Fat Girl Walking and I have to say, even though I am lucky to count myself among the friends of Brittany, this book spoke to me in ways I didn't anticipate. Not only does she share, without rose coloured glasses, the bare nuts of her life, her journey and her insecurities, she does it fearlessly. She lives out loud on the pages in such a way that I could practically hear her voice in my ear telling me the story. Brittany has a way of taking all those terrible voices we all hear in our own heads when it comes to body issues and putting them out on the page in a way that makes sense. Every woman should read this book. Every man should read it too. Well done!

Uncorrected Proof Copy of the Book - Brittany does an amazing job at making everything she's saying feel relatable. You understand why she does what she does and what she's done in the past and why she did that. The book makes sense and more importantly it holds a great message. It in no way reads like a self help book, which I think is what I thought it would be when I read the title. I was very happy when I realized that it was her journey and how she grew to love herself, but everyone has to find their own individual way. Brittany is a great writer and she's funny! I had never heard of her before, but now I'm a huge fan.

Brittany is the girlfriend everyone needs to have. She had me laughing to the point of tears, for reals crying and fist-bumping the air. This is amazing and empowering!

I first found Brittany online after the birth of my second child. She had written a hilarious post about working at the Gap that made me pee my pants a little. I've been hooked ever since. Figuring out she lived only 20 minutes away our whole lives made it even more interesting. As she chronicled her growing up years, I could draw similar parallels to my own. This book gives us a little piece of her soul, and I appreciated hearing the journey, as in her blog you only got snippets and not put in the context of her life, which helps to show how far she had to journey to get where she is today and not without a few insecurities and missteps. I appreciate the realness of the book, the honesty and the ability to realize you need to be comfortable in your own skin to change the MFing conversation as well as not pass your insecurities down to your own children, who will then hate their bodies because that's all they know to do. Some of my favorites quotes:"I've actually long suspected there was a skinny girl inside me, but not in a metaphysical way. More like I probably had a twin, but I ate her.""...Talking about makeup and our favorite New Kid on the Block, mine of course being Danny, an early foreshadowing of my preference for men with mouths built for cunnilingus." On failing to get a phone sex job because of her inability to talk about female and male genitalia: "Saying those words out loud was a lot harder than pointing at them in person and then putting them inside you, which is how I handle both the majority of my foreplay and orderings things in foreign-speaking restaurants."And finally, words of wisdom from her grandma: "You are going to fail at a lot of things, so when you do, do it on such a grand scale that half the room gives you a standing ovation, and the other half gives you the middle finger." Well, Grandma, I give your granddaughter a standing ovation. Bravo, Brittany. Thanks for sharing. Can't wait for the next one. And btw, I like 15 minutes away, let's be friends!!! :)

Wow. Just wow. I read this woman's blog, I follow her on Instagram, I'm part of her online sisterhood, I interact with her in tiny ways every day, but I am still blown away by how blown away I am by this book. The first 70-75% is about her life growing up and becoming who she is now. The last part is about how she learned to love herself and how we can all learn to love ourselves. It's about accepting not only ourselves for who we are but accepting everyone else for who they are as well. It's given me a lot of food for thought and I really hope that it starts a lot of positive conversations. Here are some things that really spoke to me as I read;"The reality was that my life wasn't miserable because I was curvy; I was miserable because I thought I'd be happier if I were thinner, and when I sat down to think about it, it didn't really make sense.""Women especially wanted someone to stand up and say all the things they weren't brave enough to say yet. They wanted to talk about having sex and shopping and friendships and dating, not as a plus-size person, but as a *person*. We aren't fetishes or last resorts, but we were being treated that way in the media. Curvy women want to be reassured that they were allowed to both love and hate parts of their body and at the end of the day, still have worth.""We pay money every day to be reassured we aren't meeting the current standard of beauty. We not only are told that we're not good enough: we willingly pay for that experience.""As I stand at the top looking down, I realize this is not a plus-size movement, but a woman's movement. Strength and empowerment are not built on the backs of other women. The realness of a woman is not defined by her curves or lack thereof; real women are those who defend and empower all women, no matter what the size of their ass is. If we don't say enough and stop the race to the beauty-standard finish line, the casualties and the resentment women have toward each other will grow."Buy it.Read it.You won't be sorry.PSC2015 Nonfiction

I really liked this book. Brittany Gibbons' style is very reminiscent of Jenny Lawson's "Let's Pretend This Never Happened." If you liked that book, you will really enjoy "Fat Girl Walking." I enjoyed the stories of her childhood and about her family experiences. I didn't know she was from Ohio when I picked up this book but to me that made her even more relatable-also the fact that she attended Catholic grade school for part of her upbringing. I appreciated her honesty as she shared some pretty private moments and struggles. I love that the overarching theme of her book, and her life, is an absolute lack of apology for who she is. Everything about her screams confidence. I like that she talks about going through the long and lengthy process to get to this point but when you read her words you just feel like she's been comfortable in her skin all her life. After I read the part about her TED talk, I went online to watch it and it was incredibly moving. I teared up a little as she spoke. She was so confident but you could also tell she had that edge of nervousness mixed with empowerment. She is incredibly brave and I think she is giving a voice to all women, regardless of size. She stresses that too at the end, that she realizes the majority of women struggle with body issues, be we thin, heavy, "average-sized" (whatever that means!), tall, small, differently-abled, whatever the case may be. Beyond all of this,her sense of humor and natural funniness makes this a book perfectly balanced with meaning and entertainment. I can't say enough good about this book. For someone so young she displays an incredible amount of maturity and insight while still being highly accessible and down to earth. I would recommend this book to anyone.

Fat Girl Walking was on a reader's choice list I saw someplace, so when it came available on the library app I snatched it up. Blogger, Brittany Gibbons writes in her memoir about her life, her childhood, her family, her career, and her marriage-primarily however, she writes about her lifelong struggle for self love and acceptance regardless of the size of her jeans, the number on the scale, or the ever-changing fickleness of public opinion. Throughout my reading of Fat Girl Walking, I gained a respect for Brittany Gibbons-and I DO think she is a brave woman-NOT for publicly posing in a swimming suit, but for advocating for women everywhere, as well as for herself-for laying out the hidden pain and shameful behaviors most of us lock up inside of ourselves in fear of discovery. Writing not just about what you think, but how you feel requires courage. There were moments of humor, but mostly Fat Girl Walking is a relatable and enlightening tale of a girl who struggled throughout her life to overcome public perception and her own self loathing...it is a love story between Brittany and her husband Andy, and of Brittany and herself.