Chicken Soup for the Soul: Curvy & Confident: 101 Stories about Loving Yourself and Your Body

by Amy Newmark

Barbie comes in a curvy model now, Sports Illustrated features full-size swimsuit models, and fashion designers are focusing more on curvy women. There’s a healthy conversation going on now about body image and self-esteem, and Chicken Soup for the Soul is part of it, with this collection of 101 stories celebrating all the different body types that women have and how we can all be curvy and confident—fit and fabulous within the body types we were issued at birth!

Supermodel EMME, the world’s first curvy supermodel, an advocate for women and a spokesperson for all the curvy and confident women out there, shares her own story and introduces us to women who have learned to be fit, happy, and confident about their bodies. These personal stories from 100 different women will leave you feeling empowered, beautiful, and loving your look. You’ll read stories about how women developed their confidence and dealt with societal and media pressures, about attitude adjustments and acceptance, and about being healthy and loving yourself just the way you are!

Genres: Nonfiction

400 pages, ebook

Published December 27, 2016

About the author

Amy Newmark is the bestselling author, editor-in-chief, and publisher of the Chicken Soup for the Soul book series. Since 2008, she has published 191 new Chicken Soup for the Soul titles, most of them national bestsellers in the U.S. and Canada, more than doubling the number of Chicken Soup for the Soul titles in print today.

Amy is credited with revitalizing the Chicken Soup for the Soul brand, which has been a publishing industry phenomenon since the first book came out in 1993. By compiling inspirational and aspirational true stories curated from ordinary people who have had extraordinary experiences, Amy has kept the thirty-year-old Chicken Soup for the Soul brand fresh and relevant.

Follow Amy on Twitter @amynewmark. Listen to her free podcast, The Chicken Soup for the Soul Podcast, on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, the Podcasts app on iPhone, or by using your favorite podcast app on other devices.

Reviews

[Donna Roberts · Rating 5 out of 5]

This compilation of real life stories offers a wonderful contribution to the current social conversation about body image and self worth. I am a proud contributor to this Chicken Soup volume (story #3 - A Confident Triumph) and a life-long fan of the series. Once again Chicken Soup has touched our hearts and challenged our minds.

[Tamara Evans · Rating 5 out of 5]

As a plus size curvy woman, it has been a struggle at times to accept my body as well as how others feel about my body. Fortunately with the creation of body positivity movements such as the HAES (healthy at every size) and fat acceptance movement, I have learned to appreciate and embrace my body as it currently is regardless of what others have to say.

The book consists of 101 stories about loving yourself an your body divided into eleven sections including sharing the wisdom, nourishing my body, the joy of exercise and breaking out of my comfort zone to name a few. This book provides wonderful inspiring stories which empower the reader to live their life on their own terms. I feel that while this book is written for the plus size woman, it can also be read by plus size men or family and friends of plus size people so they can have a better idea of the challenges plus size people encounter on a daily basis.

[Danielle · Rating 5 out of 5]

I can't like this book enough! It is a must read for everyone, men and women. It has a great range of authors. When you feel low, read this pick to pick you up.

[Katie]

I only read this book for the quotes at the beginning of each story.

[Janice Pushak]

A lot of the stories remind me of things that I have gone through and have been inspiring.