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Jillian Michaels

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2132 total appearances

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

What I'm telling you is that I don't define my worth on the ways in which external.

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

No, fully agree with you there.

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

Because I can't change that.

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

I can change how I respond to it.

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

I can change how I feel about it.

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

But you are trying to change the world because something is.

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

And it does, but we can't rely on that for your feeling of well-being.

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

Who's relying on that?

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

Plenty of people.

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

Do you realize 74% of the country is overweight or obese?

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

I'm curious about what your definition of body positivity is, because you're talking about shame, and you're talking about personal feelings and emotion, and I have a little bit different of a definition of body positivity.

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

Some of yours.

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

When I think about the body positivity movement, I actually think about its roots in the fat rights movement, which is where I work.

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

In the 60s, yeah.

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

In the 60s.

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

I run NAFA, which is a fat organization that was founded in the 60s.

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

And when I think about the folks who have been using that terminology since the 70s, 80s, 90s, not just the people who kind of popped up using it on Instagram and Tumblr in the 2000s, but that it has this long, long history.

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

That long, long history is actually about body justice.

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

It's not just about individual feelings.

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

It's not just about, you know, my mother-in-law said something to me at dinner or my, you know, this guy didn't want to date me because I was fat.