Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You

‘You need this book. Your mom needs this book. Your best friend needs this book. Everyone needs a dose of Happy Fat!’ Julie Murphy

‘I am a fat person and I love my body. I feel lucky to be able to say that – it has taken a lot of work and a lot of time. I want to tell you what I have learned and how I got here.’

In Happy Fat, comedian Sofie Hagen shares how she removed fatphobic influences from her daily life and found self-acceptance in a world where judgement and discrimination are rife.

From shame and sex to airplane seats, love and getting stuck in public toilets, Sofie provides practical tips for readers – drawing wisdom from other Fat Liberation champions along the way.

Part memoir, part social commentary, Happy Fat is a funny, angry and impassioned look at how taking up space in a culture that is desperate to reduce you can be radical, emboldening and life-changing.

• Featured on Cosmopolitan magazine’s list of most anticipated books for 2019.

• Sofie will be embarking on a tour across the UK from April to June 2019. The Bubblewrap/Happy Fat tour will combine her award-winning 2015 comedy show Bubblewrap with a reading and Q&A from Happy Fat.

• Having co-founded the Guilty Feminist, Sofie now hosts the Made of Human podcast, and her podcasts have had 1.2 million total downloads. Sofie has a hugely passionate online following of 46k Twitter, 40k Instagram and 28k Facebook followers.

• Sofie’s TEDx talk, You Can Be Fat and Happy, has had 16k views since its release in January 2019.

Competition: hunger, shrill, body posi panda, Not So Subtle Art of Being a Fat Girl . lindy west, virgie tovar, megan jayne crabbe, tess holliday, aidy bryant, stephanie yeboah