Fat Babes Club of Columbus wanted to throw events where people of all sizes felt accepted. Their first Body Positive Pool Party attracted women from around the Midwest. (WOSUnews)
“Bake Me Happy is fat-friendly,” Chinn explains, as her three co-founders pull out their laptops and cellphones. “ a word that describes adipose tissue, which is fat tissue, which we all have in abundance.”, and they’ve come to this Merion Village café to plan a pool party for fat women.
Fat Babes Club Of Columbus wants to fill that gap, and summer is the perfect time: It’s swimsuit season, which can be especially difficult for plus-sized people. Magazine headlines and Instagram posts promote ab workouts and diets for a “bikini ready” body.Godown says that, though forming the club itself was a no-brainer, they debated over whether to use the term “fat” to describe the club.
“We don’t see bodies that look like ours moving and being active and frolicking at pools and hanging out with babes and flirting,” Chinn laments.More than 150 people frolicked and flirted at the first-ever “Body Positive Pool Party” on June 22. They came from around Ohio, West Virginia and Indiana.“I have traveled all over the country to go to plus-sized and size-inclusive events,” Dalessandro says. “So to know that there was one finally being organized only two hours away, honestly was nothing.
“Whether it’s because of accessibility issues, not having access to a vehicle that can transport you safely,” Chinn says. “Not having access to spaces that can literally hold your body safely, having physical complications in conjunction to being a person of size.”
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