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Wendy Shanker's humorous, hopeful memoir about women and body image, The Fat Girl's Guide to Life (Bloomsbury USA) changed the way many women related to their weight. You may have seen Wendy discussing her book on The View, Good Morning America, CBS Sunday Morning, or on her national tour sponsored by Macy's Woman. The Fat Girl's Guide was recently released in paperback, and will be published in seven different languages, including Italian, German, and Japanese (but not French because French Women Don't Get Fat).

Wendy's byline has appeared in Glamour, Grace , Self, Shape , Us Weekly (Fashion Police), Cosmopolitan, Marie-Claire, Seventeen, alternative mags like Bust and Bitch, and on MTV. She contributed to the anthology Body Outlaws: Rewrit

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Books by Wendy Shanker

Average rating: 3.69 · 590 ratings · 122 reviews · 5 distinct works

	The Fat Girl's Guide to Life 3.71 avg rating — 377 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Are You My Guru?: How Medicine, Meditation & Madonna Saved My Life 3.81 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Mucha Talla: La Feliz Historia De Una Mujer Con Unos Kilos De Mas 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Poradnik grubaski: zejdź z wagi i (ro)zważ otaczający Cię świat! by Wendy Shanker, Katarzyna Focht (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Does This Book Make Me Look Fat? by Marissa Walsh (Editor), Daniel Pinkwater, Megan McCafferty (Goodreads Author) 3.54 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 2008	My rating:

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“I don't expect to meet the man of my dream today, but if I do, then I guess if he's really the man of my dreams he won't reject me when he sees the pudge around my knees.”
― Wendy Shanker, The Fat Girl's Guide to Life

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“As far as I know, Gwyneth Paltrow has not compared herself to me today, so I've decided that I will not compare myself to her.”
― Wendy Shanker, The Fat Girl's Guide to Life

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“Let’s take the focus off “fat” and put it on health. Let’s take the focus off “skinny” and put it on good common sense. Let’s take the focus off body image and put it on education, women’s rights, human rights, the economy, baseball cards, anything.”
― Wendy Shanker, The Fat Girl's Guide to Life

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