The influencer and founder of Mega Babe has made a career normalizing the uncomfortable. Her new book takes it a step further.
In Katie Sturino’s First Book, Body Acceptance Is for Everyone
Anyone who has lost a fight to a pair of jeans in a dressing room will instantly recognize the feeling: standing alone with your legs tethered together, the denim yanked up to the midpoint of your thighs, unwilling to move an inch further. Usually, it’s a private disappointment. Katie Sturino went in a different direction. Instead, back in 2018, she opted to share her frustration with 575,000 Instagram followers, stamped with #MakeMySize every single time she found herself maxed out of a brand’s size range. Sturino wanted women to stop feeling alone in dressing rooms and to stop being so hard on their bodies.
Sturino’s career has been defined by normalizing the uncomfortable, whether it’s standing on a street in NYC with a leg propped up on a light post, reapplying her MegaBabe Thigh Rescue (a body-care brand she founded), or recreating celebrity style moments with her hashtag #SuperSizeTheLook, dismantling the ‘Who Wore It Best?’ attitude in the process. She’s that loud (digital) friend we all need to shout you’re beautiful at us, over and over again. Sturino is channeling that energy with the launch of her new book, Body Talk, which is part confessional, part roadmap, and part workbook jam-packed with bright, joyous graphics to make it clear: “THERE IS NOTHING AT ALL WRONG WITH YOU. THERE IS ONLY EVERYTHING RIGHT.”
Body Talk, releasing on May 25, sets out to help women breakup with body shame and to forge a stronger relationship with the body they have through “homework” and moments of comical honesty—the kind you’d expect from the founder of a podcast called Boob Sweat. It’s not here to sell you on loving every single part of your body every day. Rather, it’s here to encourage you to be kinder to your body, while simultaneously calling out the harm and wasted time that comes from chasing unattainable beauty standards. It’s a bar of body acceptance, that dare I say, feels accessible?
Below is a candid conversation Katie and I had about body acceptance, her hopes for the book, and what it was like to see her most embarrassing moments in print.
Marielle Elizabeth: Why did you decide that now is the time for you to write this book?
This story originally appeared on: Vogue - Author:Marielle Elizabeth
