PARIS?Chic, svelte, feline.This is the caricature of ?la Parisienne,? the well-heeled woman who embodies the essence of the world?s most fashionable city. Think Coco Chanel, Catherine Deneuve and Inès de la Fressange: paragons of style, arbiters of taste. To make the cut, you have to be many things. Until recently, one of those things was thin.Not any more.On Friday, the city of Paris formally launched a campaign against ?grossophobia,? or fat shaming. Mayor Anne Hidalgo convened the conference after the stunning success of a book, On Ne Naît Pas Grosse (You Are Not Born Fat), published this year.
12-18-2017, 02:02 AM
Paris, the city of the svelte, is cracking down on fat shaming
PARIS?Chic, svelte, feline.This is the caricature of ?la Parisienne,? the well-heeled woman who embodies the essence of the world?s most fashionable city. Think Coco Chanel, Catherine Deneuve and Inès de la Fressange: paragons of style, arbiters of taste. To make the cut, you have to be many things. Until recently, one of those things was thin.Not any more.On Friday, the city of Paris formally launched a campaign against ?grossophobia,? or fat shaming. Mayor Anne Hidalgo convened the conference after the stunning success of a book, On Ne Naît Pas Grosse (You Are Not Born Fat), published this year.
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