Your Kick Ass Life Podcast

My dear friend, Kate Anthony is back on the YKAL podcast this week to continue our conversation about body image. Just like in Part 1 of this episode, Part 2 follows the conversation between two women on their body image journeys, and the roads traveled so far. Full disclosure and for clarity: We are not body image experts and want to be very clear about that. Today, we further explore this topic and respond to some of the feedback we received from Part 1 of our conversation. We also discuss diet culture, in-depth. Join us as we awkwardly make our way through the second part of our conversation about body image. In this episode you’ll hear: Owning thin privilege and naming it (23 minutes and 10 seconds) What is diet culture, exactly? (27:33) “The lie about diet culture is that it’s healthy.” (35:28) Exercise is NOT bad. Rejecting diet culture was an act of revolution and act of self-love (40:50) Reflecting on our earliest memories of dieting, our mothers’ way of handling body image and how those experien