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We've all heard the classic story of a bride not wanting to be fat on her wedding day. Many brides resort to extreme measures that are terrible for their health, just so they don't look fat in their wedding pictures. When did we become so afraid of being fat brides? Surely fat brides look just as gorgeous and radiant on their wedding days as brides of any other body shape. Help me prove it! Join the group and upload all of your gorgeous fat bride photos for us to enjoy and admire.

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Dear Fat Rights Coalition Members,

Hi there! It certainly has been a while since we've talked. I trust you all had wonderful holiday seasons and are enjoying the first bit of 2009. I have two things I want to discuss with you. First of all, I'm sure many of you freaked out as I did when you read that Big Fat Blog would cease to exist in… Continue

For those of you who haven't been over to the Athletes at Every Size photo pool on Flickr lately, I invite you to check it out. We've got a lot of great photos and over 60 members in the group so far, but I know there are more fat athletes out there or even people who don't consider themselves athletes but who have done amazing physical stuff that went beyond their own expectations. Please join us, even if just to take a look at the incredible photos that are already there.… Continue

For a long time I have carried around this idea in my head that I am too fat to exercise. Despite all of the message out there telling us we *should* be exercising (because otherwise we'll be bad fatties...ooo), there is a distinct lack of actual imagery, videos, photos, etc of fat people in the act of exercising. The media portrays all athletes as lean hardbodies and there's no room for the rest of us to see ourselves in that ideal.

About a year ago I went to Vancouver, BC to watch my brother… Continue

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Obese have right to 2 airline seats --Canada court
Thu Nov 20 15:17:47 UTC 2008

OTTAWA, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Obese people have the right to two seats for the price of one on flights within Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Thursday.

The high court declined to hear an appeal by Canadian airlines of a decision by the Canadian Transportation Agency that people who are "functionally disabled by obesity" deserve to have two seats for one fare.

The airlines had lost an appea… Continue