The basic idea, popularized in the 2008 book ‘Health at Every Size,’ by nutritionist Linda Bacon, is that you should exercise and eat right, regardless of whether those habits cause you to lose weight. But that summary doesn’t do justice to Harding’s heady mix of outrageous rhetoric… unflinching self-revelation and high-octane sarcasm.

-Nara Schoenberg, Chicago Tribune

Fat is also a feminist issue, and that’s why Kate Harding and her co-bloggers at Shapely Prose write witty, fierce daily posts challenging bullshit assumptions made by health statistics, popular media, and any other dumbass who thinks you should diet.

Wendy McClure, Bust Magazine

If Kate Harding didn’t write for Broadsheet, then we’d be writing about Kate Harding. As one of the leading voices of the fat acceptance movement, Harding writes about body issues (among other places, on her blog Shapely Prose) with a trademark intelligence and wit. In short, she’s a firecracker.

-Sarah Hepola, Salon

MOST RECENT

Craig Lassig for the NYT

WTTW: Kate discusses the cost of obesity treatment on “Chicago Tonight”

Jezebel: Times Discovers Women Who Don’t Diet

The New York Times: To Eat Well, Be Instinctive

The New York Times: Tossing Out the Diet and Embracing the Fat

The Scotsman: Shapely and Timely Rescue from Myself

The Frisky: Ten Women You’d Be Daft Not to Follow on Twitter

Time Out New York: Fat Acceptance

iVillage’s Never Say Diet: Love Thyself and Thy Big Body

VIDEO

Kate on WTTW’s “Chicago Tonight”

Kate on CNN’s American Morning

AUDIO

Kate on Radio Health Journal

Kate on CBC Radio’s “Q”

Kate on Meet the Bloggers

PRINT AND ONLINE

2009

New York Times: Bingeing on Celebrity Weight Battles

The Daily Beast: The Fat Wars

Newsweek: The best diet is no diet: Fat acceptance authors weigh in

Editrix: 5 Questions with Kate Harding

Salon: Screw Inner Beauty

The Chicago Tribune: The queen of fat bloggers takes no prisoners

Jezebel: Kate Harding Isn’t Going to Take Shit Because She’s Not a Size 4

Reuters: Obesity becoming U.S. civil rights issue for some

Salon: Does my butt look fat? (Excerpt from Feed Me! Writers Dish about Food, Eating, Weight and Body Image.)

2008
Chatelaine: “We’ve got our eye on Kate Harding” (no online version available).

RedEye: Fat vs. fiction

RedEye: The F-word

Tara Parker-Pope’s “Well” (NYT blog): Pictures of Health

Virginia Heffernan’s “The Medium” (NYT blog): Other People’s Photosets

The New York Times: In the “Fatosphere,” big is in, or at least accepted

The Denton Record-Chronicle: Fat and happy online

(Israeli newspaper) Ha’aretz: Rebellion of the fat women