Plus Size From C

13 Pounds by C (below)

Take 5 with the Fabulous Fatties.

For those who follow from Twitter, you may know that I have been struggling for past few months with a chronic disease that has delivered a thorough butt drubbing.  Truth is, I’ve been sick for a year now, with only a passing nod to elusive remission.  The good news is that it looks like I am headed into the remission zone again, and that my dedicated doc may have found a way out from the daily effects of the disease.

The road here, however, has been an exercise in faith and footwork. (As a friend of mine would say, when stuck in the middle of a lake in a rowboat – PRAY – but for goodness sake, keep rowing.)  Along the way to our newest solution, I have ingested some pretty poisonous drugs that have left me with etch-a-sketch brain, made me profoundly depressed (and trust me, just because you know it’s a side effect, doesn’t make it any less real), grown hair on my chin, tested my sainted husband’s patience (he continues to pass) lost hair from my head, and gained weight. (more…)

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The reception to Plus Size From C – Sporting a Bodacious Body in a Bony-Ass World ™ on October 6 stunned even this optimistic round woman!  Hundreds of you sent emails to express your congratulations and encouragement for creating the forum.  Clearly, it all  went too well, because my health immediately took a turn for the worse.  Now my Christian Sisters call this the Devil trying steal your blessings and my New Age Sisters would tell me that I still believe in lack and have work to do.  Regardless, I was sidelined with such fury that I didn’t have enough brain space to contemplate the cause, only to hold still and heal.  Betwixt all the smoting, I still had a day job in which October is mad busy, culminating with a huge event in NYC for the rich and beautiful.  So the Bodacious Blog got parked in favor of adult responsibilities and popping pills.

My profession employs a type of woman that is especially fembotish.  My industry is peopled with ectomorphs with perfect three-color processed hair dressed in an unsettling, nearly identical wardrobe whether employed in Missouri, Marin County or Manhattan. While I have no statistical proof, I would estimate that over 99% of these women wear a size ten or smaller.  This is borne out anecdotally as I survey the stick-figures of thousands of my contemporaries at the annual professional gathering in NYC I attend. In this crowd, I stand out. Literally.

And while my profession clearly one skinny vocation, the audience I serve elevates thin to a whole new stratum.  Among a certain zip codes in Manhattan (and the surrounding tri-state area) there is no such size as 10.  There is only size 0-2 and disgustingly fat.  If you’re a 10, you just aren’t trying hard enough. Everyone on this island measures food intake by  hunger pangs.  A well rounded nutritional plan consists of watching the food channel 24/7 while calling your personal trainer. The only caffeine allowed is a coffee colonic (which, if you were ever diagnosed with true colon problems, you would avoid like the plague they are).

And so I  prepared for my autumn rites, with a fun new twist. In addition to the steroids (which stopped working just after I developed “moonface”) my doc threw in a new drug that lists excessive perspiration as a major side effect. The insert can call it whatever it wants, but now we have a largely woman with a puffy face, suffering from insomnia (to give the eyes that shifty, serial killer look) who is producing flop sweat every time the climate changes (in this case each time the elevator door opens to deposit guests at the event).

And I’m sorry, but at this four-star boneyard soirée, I guarantee you that not one of the fifty-year- olds who still sports her asscheeks between her shoulder blades was thinking – “My, she’s mighty sweaty, she must be on some kind of new medication.”  Nope, they judged.  And judged harshly.  The standard double check society kiss suddenly was administered sans the actual hugging. One woman, who has a habit of preloading for these affairs, actually blurted out, “Wait – I don’t want to touch you” as she tried to do the hokey- pokey to avoid anything moist.  I can’t really blame her, I didn’t want to touch my body either.  But my desire for evasion came without contempt.

I made it through the event, bid everyone adieu and adjourned to my hotel room.  I stripped naked as I speed dialed my best friend where I promptly reported the play by play.  Sure, the hate made we want to cry.  But since I had just passed the “no you don’t have to have half your internal organs rerouted to a Ziploc” the segue into hysterical laughter came quickly. (And for the record, they laughter produced even more sweat)

I am home now, still feeling well and getting a bit stronger every day.  And the good news is that  I get to return to my essence – writing, healing, shopping.

So welcome back to the blog.  Stay tuned for all the features you thought you might grow to love.   I hope you will continue to return despite the lag in content during the first launch.

Today’s coffee break:  Spend time with the Bodacious Beauty Directory.

Far beyond the confines of a mall or outlet, the directory is your comprehensive guide to exploring the best that fashion has to offer. A great place to begin is with our own Marie Denee’s new shop at  The Curvy Fashionista!

It’s all that AND a bag of Funions!

Bodacious Beauty comes in every size – and every effort has been made to include retailers that carry extended sizes.   Also listed are links to impossible to find items like:

• Large size hats
• Plus size maternity bridal dresses
• Bowling shirts
• Blouses made to order (for Bustalicious Divas)
• Eco Fashions:  Good for the earth and your curves!
• Fetish & Leather Fashions:  Hey, I don’t judge!
• Scrubs – made to order, in hundreds of custom prints – to 10X
• Belly dance essentials
• Transitional clothing:  Bridge-line clothing for when you are changing sizes rapidly

From $15 to $1000+ – the directory will take you to new fashion heights. Bring  your Bodacious Beauty to whole new level!

See you on our Runway!

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New Bodacious Beauty Directory with over 200 Shopping Sites!

A Change in Course on “Just Cause They Make It your Size…”

It’s been a busy two weeks for fashion faux pas, fat and Photoshop.

The media worked itself into an avalanche of accolades for Glamour’s pictorial of seven beautiful plus size models. Fashion icons and designers worldwide competed in an nauseous game of ignorant one-up-manship belching out what they think the appropriate size might be for a woman.  Ralph Lauren tried to make every curve on women disappear, either through shame or by literally, well, erasing their bodies.  And researchers announced that they have discovered that all models, regardless of size, diminish the self esteem of overweight women.

I might as well start with the sentiment most likely to lose my pep squad award.  I’m just going to say it:  Glamour magazine got it wrong.  (Wrong #1) (more…)

The Blog that Twitter Begat.

This would be an excellent time to bookmark me!

When my doc prescribed stopping my life and ingesting high dosages of poison steroids for seven weeks last spring, I needed a way to spend my endless hours on house arrest.  One day, after vowing to never again read TMZ (I lie to myself sometimes) I said, “Hey, what’s this Twitter thing and why does everyone want to follow around Ashton Kutcher?”  So I fired up an account and followed Ashton.  I thought it was dumb.  Actually, I thought he was dumb.

Before I left I typed a few random search terms into a box and followed Thicksational (check out her excellent blog at thicksational.com) and OMG she followed me back!  I was so excited.  This was before I learned about following and being followed.  (I am happy to say that I have my kept my twitter following 99% pure – if you ain’t big, I block you baby.)  My next step was to post a plus size fashion tweet.  The rest is history, but only because of you.

Which brings me to the Plus Size From C – The Blog.  I say the instead of my because my hope is that this will be your space as much as mine.  As I looked for what type of blog would cut through the noise – and not compete with my many talented curvy sisters – I noticed that what we really needed was a place to talk about it.  It being Big.  Bodaciously Big in a Boney Ass World.

My hope is that you will visit – and contribute – often.  I’ll keep the content length conducive to our info-overloaded-ADD world so C can be a regular stop in your day. (Facebook; Twitter; PlussizefromC.com (now would be an excellent time to bookmark me!)

Let me give you a tour: (more…)