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‘Brittany Runs A Marathon’ Promotes a Weight Loss Fantasy

Your Fat Friend
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6 min readSep 7, 2019

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The movie theatre billboard for  “Brittany Runs A Marathon“.
Photo: Dave Kotinsky/Getty

While thin people’s eating disorders are cause for concern, fat people’s eating disorders are seen as culturally mandatory — even inspiring.

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