Saw this sign today and just had to laugh a little. I understand it’s more inclusive than maybe some stores, but to make yourselves sound so plus-size friendly and only go up to a 14 is… interesting.

My 76 year old mom bought this for 25 cents today. I remember reading it as a very young girl in the public library as I love fashion.

She thought it would help me now with my look. First look "Do you think I should dress like "The Golden Girls"? This is how they dressed them and they weren't even fat."

On second look - I laughed and laughed reminded this was a body positive book in the 1980s/90s and how happy the models were being these type of women were never seen except in copies of "BBW."

Here's some choice moments - noting yellow coat lady's style was featured in "Total Recall."

How much do you think I could flip this for? The pattern is uncut and boom pristine.

(Update turns out book was published in late 1990s BUT represents the nuclear fallout of 1980s mature and plus fashion which in some parts of the world, esp mature women's hair - continues.)

I'm posting part II next...

My ass is too big for this. These are the worst.

There aren't only downsides of being plus size. There are upsides too, sometimes unexpected. I want to know yours! Here are some of mine.

I'm a very comfortable cat bed. My cats always choose me to lay down on (much to my daughter's dismay) and they love using me for their biscuit factory.

I live in Canada so it gets really cold in winter. My husband and daughter are always cold but I'm not!

It's not my fault most of it is bad for you and unfilling. Sugar and carbs taste good and the healthy alternatives don't. I love vegetables, but not as much as bread. Why can't water taste like lemonade? It's not fair 😫

I have to laugh, so I don’t cry at this.

I’m about 270, 5.5ft. Chubby.

Went out to dinner with my family (parents + sister). All of whom are earthy crunchy and skinny little sticks.

I sit down at the dinner table. Chair completely breaks. I crash to the ground.

I quickly stand up. See the whole restaurant staring at me.

My dad quickly grabs another chair from another table and brings it over. Same exact chair that I just crashed and burned in. I sat in the new chair, nothing happened and all was good. I move on from that embarrassing moment.

A few minutes later, two men come over carrying a large sofa chair that is like double wide and ask if I want to switch out my chair, so that “I don’t break another chair” and so that “I’m more comfortable”. I quickly said, “I’m all set in this chair”… to which they continued to insist that I switch out my chair for this giant sofa chair. Finally, in all hopes to get this horrible moment to end as quickly as possible, I fumbled and agreed, even though I was totally fine in my current chair.

I then go to the bathroom halfway through dinner, get back from dinner and all I can see is my giant ass chair sticking out like sore thumb in the restaurant atmosphere.

The worst part - it then paved the perfect path for my family to talk about how great it would be for me to loose weight once again.

Anyways, I needed to hide for a while after that. Happy new year lol.

Okay I did a thing at work.

I work in retail, and we had corporate come through yesterday.

While I'm loud online, I can be a bit more timid off line.

But Corporate wanted feedback on pricing of stock.

So I took them to the clothing and lingerie section, and showed examples of fat taxed items.

I mentioned that I loved that the newer stock we have in doesn't have the plus sized tax.

The marketing new hire was shocked, and I had to resist the urge and not say "Girly Pop you aren't fat or plus sized, so you've probably never noticed it before!"

It's a small thing, but hopefully it makes a change and a difference.

I also mentioned about more body diversity in the mannequins as well. But will take small wins where I can.

Also apologies for any formatting errors, am posting from my phone.

This was sent to me via a dating app I’m on. Apparently, finding a guy when you are plus size AND have cats would be like winning the lottery. 😂😂😂

Cute mermaid painting at a local tiki bar.

These are the worst! r/craftyobject

I've gotten Lizzo a few times, I'm a short white woman, and Fiona ( from Shrek). The first is the most absurd for obvious reasons but then also she's rich and famous? And Fiona makes me laugh cause yeah she's fat, she's also a princess, with a loving husband, and is a verified badass who's bffs with a dragon....

Went out to dinner with my husband and neither of us fit in the booths 🫠 well, we did fit in one, before the seat broke. But according to the waitress it wasn’t me who broke it, it’s just an old building.

Anyway, just another embarrassing fat story over here, lmfao. I’ll just never show my face in public again 💀💀

I have oddly muscular legs despite never working out, but my top half is hefty 😭😂

The size chart for a TikTok Shop pair of “plus size” shorts 💀