Thank you to Meredith Soleau, one of my most brilliant creative partners. Thank you for never saying no to any of my ideas, Mere.
And lastly, thank you to my Curvy Girl Community. You are the best sisterhood any girl could ever hope for.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Brittany Gibbons is a humorist, Internet personality, and nationally recognized positive-body-image advocate. She is the author of the New York Times best seller Fat Girl Walking: Sex, Food, Love, and Being Comfortable in Your Skin . . . Every Inch of It and writes the award-winning humor blog BrittanyHerself.com, which receives over 500k views a month. Brittany also founded the women’s lifestyle magazine CurvyGirlGuide.com. She gave a 2011 TED talk on the reinvention of beauty and she’s been the face of numerous fashion campaigns. Brittany’s writing has been featured in the New York Times, Huffington Post, Redbook, Woman’s Day, Marie Claire, L.A. Times, The Stir, and Babble, among many others. Brittany also hosts a weekly Google talk show called Last Call Brittany and the weekly podcast Girl’s Girls. Brittany lives in Ohio with her husband and three children.
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THE CLOTHES MAKE THE GIRL (LOOK FAT)?. Copyright © 2017 by Brittany Gibbons. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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Digital Edition DECEMBER 2017 ISBN: 978-0-06-249924-0
Print ISBN: 978-0-06-249923-3
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* So help me God, Andy Gibbons, if you divorce me for any reason after the publication of this book, I will never forgive you, and if I die first, I will haunt you.