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Lara

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

"I think I've kind of been in a bubble... thinking that fairness was gonna just happen. It's not. People like me are gonna have to get up... and go out and fight for it." Tracy, "Hairspray" I'm Lara Frater, author of "Fat Chicks Rule!" Buy my book at Amazon
My book came out in July 2005. If you can't find my book in stores, demand that they order it! The book is an essential guide to being a fabulous fat chick in this thin-centered world.

Also check out my monthly column at Igigi A Fabulous Online clothing store!The only book on how to live the big girl's life with style and flair, Fat Chicks Rule! will tackle the issues that fat women face everyday in our thin-centered society. This beautifully illustrated book will include tips on everything that the plus-size woman needs to know, including how to dress like a beauty queen, where and where not to shop, famous fat chicks in history, fat images in movies, television and literature, the dieting scam, snappy comebacks against the ignorant and fatphobic and much more.

"Fat Chicks Rule! is a great resource for everything the Fat Chick needs to live her life fully." -- Review "PlusStuff.com"

"Fat Chicks Rule" is not just a necessary tool for your personal, self-celebrating revolution, it's the simple truth!!!" -- Marilyn Wann, FAT!SO? author & fat rebel.

"Funny, enlightening, and practically useful." - Kathleen LeBesco, Author "Revolting Bodies"

"With Fat Chicks Rule, Lara Frater has provided a cheerful, practical, and optimistic guide for surviving in a fat-phobic culture--with a sense of humor. You go, girl!" --Laura Fraser, Losing It: America's Obsession With Weight and the Industry That Feeds On It

My Interests

Size acceptance, fat, fat chicks, BBW, FA, NAAFA, phat,

I'd like to meet:

Welcome to all who are interested in size acceptance!

FA's are welcomed to friend me however I'm happily married.

Music:

"Fat Bottom Girls"

Movies:

Hairspray, More to Love, Phat Girlz, Circle of Friends, Baby Cakes, Baghdad Cafe, Real Women have Curves, Secret Society

Television:

Roseanne, The Practice, Less than Perfect, Living Single

Books:

Fat Chicks Rule, Fat! So?, The Obesity Myth, Good in Bed

Heroes:

Michael Moore, Marilyn Wann, Lillian Russell, Candye Kane, Kathy Bates, Emme

My Blog

Fat Girl’s Flea Market! Donate, Shop, experience!

For those in the New York Metro (or anyone who can get here) you must come to the Fat Girl's Flea Market!!! It is one day only Saturday Sept 29. I've been to three of them and they are AMAZING!They ...
Posted by Lara on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 10:44:00 PST

Old Navy

Old NavyEveryone who owns my book, please go to the section listing Old Navy and cross out the A they got and give them a D. I have heard from the fashion grapevine that Old Navy will no longer be ca...
Posted by Lara on Tue, 01 May 2007 05:48:00 PST

Halloween

Really ticked off about the lack of availablity of plus size costumes!  It's not that stores don't carry them, no one makes them! Why? Don't fatties deserve to celebrate Halloween in style. So...
Posted by Lara on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 11:32:00 PST

bloggers...

Sorry I haven't been blogging here. As always I'm busy. Promise to do more on my myspace account.
Posted by Lara on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 03:59:00 PST

Hairspray

Found out yesterday that they cast an unknown for the role of Tracey Turnblatt in hairspray. Kind of nice that they found some one new instead of taking someone from the "Fat actress pool" or slappin...
Posted by Lara on Sat, 10 Jun 2006 09:03:00 PST

More of a personal blog

This will be more of journal type thing then my official blog. There will be no official post days. There will be grammar and spelling errors. Run on sentences and stuff... I thought that this blog c...
Posted by Lara on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 05:33:00 PST

Fat Girl's Flea Market

If you are in the NYC Metro area, this is WORTH it. You must come... Come...Come to the fat girl flea market and find what you've been looking for!NYC's fourth annual flea benefiting NOLOSE (http://w...
Posted by Lara on Wed, 31 May 2006 05:31:00 PST

Phat, FATA and Stupid

Phat GirlzIf you haven't see Phat Girlz yet, go see it. Of course I've been bad because I haven't seen it yet but I will try this week. Unfortunately it has only been released on 1000 screens! (An a...
Posted by Lara on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 04:16:00 PST