User:Terry (Theresa) Poulton

Canadian-born Terry Poulton has been a magazine and newspaper writer, in Canada and the United States, for decades. She is the author of No Fat Chicks: How Women Are Brainwashed To Hate Their Bodies & Spend Their Money (Canadian edition) and No Fat Chicks: How Big Business Profits By Making Women Hate Their Bodies - And How To Fight Back (U.S. edition). Both are now available as e-books on Amazon.com and Kobo.com.

Terry became a national hero to many Canadian women in 1982, when she wrote a six-month series in Chatelaine - Canada's top women's magazine - pledging to lose 65 pounds in six months, and appearing on the cover that June. Years later, Terry came to believe she’d betrayed her admirers by not questioning whether she, and they, had an obligation to be thin. She wrote her books to expose the commercial forces that created and perpetuate the obsession with losing weight.

Her website is: www.terrypoulton.com