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[Music]
There’s nothing your size here.
hello, strange I’ve never seen in my life
I thought I ‘d take a shot today.
here a miracle product to do
you lose weight
You’re about to have an attack.
cardiac
You deserve to be sued.
You should die, these are just
some of the fat people things like
I heard on the streets of law on the internet the
time in a society driven by the
Fat people perfection are the last in the
the rank of empathy we attract hatred
prejudice of even minority groups to
people preach stigmas independent of
our individual personalities
fat people as they are seen as
sick and incapacitated lazy
relaxed we excluded the market
fashion at medical doctor’s office
question tell you to really lose weight
if you talk to treat a fingernail
ingrown
Before we say good afternoon, it’s ours.
sensitivity is also restricted who is
Fat here, the one who was fat knows a lot.
Good thing, we think up to three times.
before sitting in a chair in fear
to break, do not embarrass the front
from everyone
install it in a ratchet as
happened to me sometimes, too.
and hey I still seen 5254 right there
half has a picture of the bigger people, right?
so the world was not made into thought
for people like us in the media in
pop culture we only have three roles left
the fat chubby sexy woman traveled in the
look of the girl and the funny chubby
is that our existence is only validated
if we accept that he is ill if
want to lose weight all the time and was a
universe that
I rejected him as superficial.
fashion and ended up opening in the
showing the reality of other women
fat like me and was an identification
with the story of a 3-year-old girl
and became a definitive framework for
in my life and the transition from my
career as a journalist
the social entrepreneur
Good, I never imagined showing the
butt and do not leave it to everyone, right?
but I will pass quickly in 2012 to
make an extra income at the end of the year is
How does every Brazilian know how I am?
decide to sell gg bikinis in my
friends and then I got created on the beach is not only
of santos mora in São Paulo 20 years ago
I ‘m from charlie brown’s and that’s right.
I did not know how to inspire my friends with
the outfits that even girls used
thinner than I gave a shame of
own body
the dental will have her house fall
all those most untrained of fashions
80s and 90s and wore all right and worshiped
shamelessly showing the body in the
beach and enjoy every moment of summer
there after that what I started to sell
the bikinis I had the idea of ​​making a
bazaar is because until then ne
Then I started to get fat so I started
to have this difficulty in finding
clothes known with my
personality
I’ve never been a very discreet person
only there I found a universe
everything excluding me until I found clothes
but those stores with little names
inviting in those things the door
long fat elegant
You were even ashamed to go into the
shop and much less leave with the bag
from that store carrying it and it was
those clothes in this thanks in
cool modeling made for women can
hide your curves and even give
hide your existence right?
I remember very well that I had three
consumption options
the department of pregnant women and I
I never had two kids
the department nor the men’s team
the shops being that I am not a man and
shops and ladies that I went along with
How did my mother buy the
clothes even at 41 years of age.
well away I felt like a lady and but not
as much as my self-esteem was
strengthened self-esteem that will not
For so many years being mistreated ignored
by stores by society for friends
by the job market, right?
how all you most want is just
20 a tank top buy a dress
to exist is not only exist does not want
be more and less than anyone else and is
right off the bat if not the bazaar was a
It sucks and I have grown
I understood that it was not fashion that I did not
I liked the age of being not to be
inserted from being excluded from that market
but until then it carried only this bazaar is
only with an extra income still
and as just one more of my
activities as a journalist dj producers
Ballad as I always liked to do a lot
thing at the same time and even for
survive in sao paulo you need
do too much or you can not
have no ice cream on the weekend
but around 2014
I had a great snap, and I saw that
this event was becoming very
more than just a shopping center of
clothes on the website like it was yesterday
it was a good scene because you want a
teen buying clothes
my wonderful photographer robinson
even robson photographed exactly
that scene a 13 year old girl
wailing a dress and it was perfect
but she did not just find the
dress that fit her but there is a
environment of host empathy and
Looked up down here has nothing
of your size and was not made for you
fashion is not for you but she
It was welcomed there and it is not
had a access to the environment she
I had never tried it before
everything will serve in her and other
smaller and smaller girls of land and more
seeing this scene that marked me a lot né
I was sure of the absurdity it was is a
Such a young girl is suffering from this
aesthetic pressure so early neither 13 14 years
It was not for the girl, she’s crying.
find a style is not a thing
normal for everyone and I looked at this
scene m fell the plug is not possible that
something so always I am in martyrdom
in the lives of so many in that of men and
especially women
makes martyrdom everyday
it is on account of the standards that someone who
We do not even know who created it, right?
and then I immediately identify myself with
this boy and I remembered all the
Sometimes I got some talking in law.
as a journalist with and she buys a
little dress to go out at night and in all
the stores would go home frustrated
crying because she had nothing on
my size and I ‘m not wrong to be
Fat, I never admit even though I
was wrong by not fit a little yes
I thought the fashion market that
I was wrong because I did not have clothes
all kinds of people
And then I took it as a fight to
me is from that moment a mission
very serious for me, right?
Fat women would be my focus
It’s working , I was going to help.
so that all would be seen not only as
consumers, but they are not
seen as possible influencers
but not above all else
as gentner and senators of respect né
and although we still have a lot of people
fashion a futility
the fashion was turned out to be the door of
wake-up call for others
important issues such as the issue of
gordon phobia is still the fault of the
fashion access on the cd ceases to be a
accessibility access
representativeness and visibility
fat people because it’s too fashion
more than keeping up with trends
of the catwalks
fashion is identity the access to fashion
which brings a sense of belonging and
It gives you dignity, unfortunately.
In Brazil, people can not leave without
clothes there, you have to have clothes
for all the moments right and the death of
dignity, how many and not I do not
I get fat women do not want
60 more that only has one piece of clothing
Wear a towel sheet in then
person has neither the dignity of having a
clothes that she can wear on a daily basis
to work to study in things
then basic right fashion also
accessibility is then fashion is a
form of expression that talks about who
we are what we want to be to occur
people want to be seen in society
but in the fashion world
thinness has always been synonymous with
elegance and fat people of slouch
of geekiness and few even though
A lot of people are talking fashion day.
plus size
few still see a segment of the
industry is so much that we have 17%
still fashion retailing producing fashion
with sites in brazil being what else is
almost 60% of the old Brazilian population
fashion plus size nee and would be like that 44 né
So there’s still a lot to the third and not
It’s because of that not my passion.
by fashion by inclusion by fashion plus
size I went deeper and trying
understand where this hatred comes from
fat people, right?
and then I went back there, right?
I went there to research, that’s right.
measured by an index created in 1832
is the infamous and mc the mass index
body that it was created by a
mathematician and statistician named adolphe
who was a Belgian scientist and
commissioned by the French Government in
full industrial revolution
for what it’s for the bodies
be standardized to manage
I do not work
or theoretically in their minds there
who was very fat could not be
competent to work
Do you agree with this how many hours of
work per day
enough and there are only the prejudices that
We go from umbanda and every moment
and that’s where we have part of the explanation
of hatred and that we have to
society time fat people right
not only is the church not only controlled by
aesthetics and moral issues, but no more
also because we need models
or a French body of the
the 19th century became a universal standard
measures the bodies of
all people
our health and competence are
measured by a century form
delayed
however what has changed in our society
in recent decades in the last few years
It’s really fair, we have to think.
reflect all science medicine think and
Do not even rethink
in this evolution there and not I think the
we respect the medical science but
I would not be here right but also
if we could not question the
science medicine to this day one
sexuality for example would be in the
international code of diseases in the
it is not an immutable thing it is not
written on the stone society also has
that questioning this time and if there were
even a concern for the health of the
fat how many people do not talk
a way to half pop many times
why not occupy the hospitals and
public and private clinics with
suitable equipment for all types
of bodies, right?
How many people here who ask for a nipple?
signed 120 kilos and could not
do basic high blood pressure tests and
Magnetic launches some friends of mine already
were referred to horseback riding and
veterinary clinics
that is, total dehumanization
this is not discussed in society
daily
and it is in the doctor’s offices a friend
mine that is doing treatment for
pregnancy is not even so fat
that 42 50
She heard from her doctor gynecologist if
keep this way your husband never saw
what he was doing you child ie
in this humanity missing the blue chair
It’s pink all over Brazil.
we are pathologizing data and
organized all the time in any way
I’m making the apology for obesity is
simply by defending the
individual freedom of difference for
that all people are treated
same way and can live with dignity
in society
the demand for plus size fashion is so
repressed here in Brazil that this
small piquet bazaar in 2012 between
friends to get more and more women
need to use the simple that it has turned
pop cross that is a great fair that
attracts an average audience of 12 thousand
people by edition and on average 70
brands to every market
that is, four times a year or
is a growing demand in every
editing are more and more people and brands
and the fair house
I hear several stories first
nor sleep until now almost six years
then the first time a woman of 30
40 50 years a bikini the shoulders
would induce even in that heat
of 30 40 degrees and only in São Paulo using
a short dress
in this countless stories of discovery
of self-love is not what you’re going to do
with which their lives change several years
not only on staff but also on the
work and love life also because
we show all the time that they do not
are alone in the world are many people
going through the same things and our
photographer right
he remembers well the beginning of the event in the
population in 2012 when it arrived to
photograph the event they hid from him
No, do not take my picture for the love of God.
and today is the foam in front of grace
in a photo strip of mine 11
then you see how the self-esteem of these
women beyond our core, but more
increasingly be this current is
spreading, do not women love each other
more and more and it’s really forgetting
even if I need a status
Wonderful to wear today, I can not.
simply leave an event in
any mall and buy a dress
nor that instead of 10 above that of the 54
so even harder, right?
I even am a person who can have
more options because I work with
I can not do this, I do not need to
make use of those pregnant
men and pregnant women, now I look
mirror I feel satisfied with what I
I do not even wear who I am but the fashion
propelling it need not popularize
even more for every pocket and
sizes
people live an era in which
professionals are rethinking fashion in
terms of consumer sustainability
gender conscious
only I must also include people
different sizes needs
bodies is and not only as potential
consumers of models but also how to
possible creators and managers in the
change chain general nay this
mentality of inclusion is not only
in empty speech and also be in the day
to day not only in the market bored and
revisiting mine this mine
trajectory to build his lecture
I saw that my fight was not really just
about fashion and self-esteem and yes about
respect for autonomy and freedom in
has no better thing to do than to exercise
release the freedom to be and we are
This is Vanessa, my teacher.
He teaches oil and it’s not just for
to finish my will is not to create a
new pattern of beauty and speech that I am
fat is beautiful but none of this because
beauty is not what is most important in
my fight
I want to be normal fat
and which is by no means the worst thing
that can happen in a person’s life
so that women do not get
mutilating in surgeries sometimes
necessary so that they do not destroy
emotional and mental health with
Remedies there crazy diets
why she did not have it in her body and not
cries out of a store and does not let
to live your life by having a body that
it is not the standard, right, because life can give
even bigger when we
learn to live with the differences and
I learned to love and I want you to
promised that we will never lose a day
sunshine out there when it’s summer
because they are overweight or out of
standard and none of these I do not want to see
everyone on the beach single
mine too
thank you so much
[Applause]
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