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Virginia Sole-Smith

Journalist & Author of "Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture"

Journalist & Author of "Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture"

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Virginia Sole-Smith Biography

As a journalist, Virginia Sole-Smith has reported from kitchen tables and grocery stores, graduated from beauty school, and gone swimming in a mermaid’s tail. Sole-Smith’s latest book, "Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture", investigates how the “war on childhood obesity” has caused kids of all ages to absorb a daily onslaught of body shame from peers, school, diet culture, and parents themselves — and offers research-based strategies to help parents name and navigate the anti-fat bias that infiltrates our schools, doctor’s offices and family dinner tables.

Sole-Smith began her career in women’s magazines, alternatively challenging beauty standards and gender norms, and upholding diet culture through her health, nutrition and fitness reporting. Motherhood inspired a reckoning of harm caused, and led to her first book, "The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image and Guilt in America", in which Sole-Smith explored how we can reconnect to our bodies, and our own innate understanding of how to eat, in a culture that’s constantly giving us so many mixed messages about both those things.

Sole-Smith is a frequent contributor to the New York Times. Her work also appears in the New York Times Magazine, Scientific American, and many other publications. She writes the newsletter Burnt Toast, where she explores fatphobia, diet culture, parenting and health, and also hosts the Burnt Toast Podcast. Sole-Smith lives in New York’s Hudson Valley with her husband, two daughters, a cat, a dog, and way too many houseplants.

Virginia Sole-Smith Videos

  • Fearless Rebelle Radio #165: Feeding Kids Intuitively
  • "When You're Told You're Too Fat To Get Pregnant"
  • "The Eating Instinct": an Interview with Virginia Sole-Smith

Virginia Sole-Smith Books

  • Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture
    Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture
  • The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America
    The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America

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