Media

Marilyn has appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, BBC, and Fox. She's been quoted in the LA Times, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Associated Press, USA Today, The Guardian, and People magazine. She performed on The Tonight Show with the Padded Lilies, a fat synchro swim team, and was the "confidence coach" on a one-hour reality tv show called "Welcome to Fatland." Online mentions include Huffington Post, Jezebel, Salon, Slate, the Frisky, Wired, and xoJane. She's also appeared on talk shows like Leeza and Jenny Jones, and has given numerous radio interviews.

2014

• O, the Oprah Magazine. Quotables: "Life is too short for self-hatred and celery sticks. — Marilyn Wann." (July)
• Bustle.com 7 fat-positive bloggers & activists you should follow
  

2013

• ABC News Obesity campaign slammed for digitally fattening kids
  
• Business Insider First 5 Photoshops kids to look obese
  
• CNN.com Opinion Fat people say #IAmNotADisease
• Slate.com Fat activists love the skin they're in

• The Frisky The wolf in the cereal bowl: How Special K and other companies co-opt body acceptance to sell body shame
  
• Daily Mail UK California health agency comes under fire
• Independent Women's Forum California fat shaming kids

• WBAL 1090AM Don't call her overweight instead of fat
  

2012

• NPR in North Carolina, with artist Rachel Herrick: "Obeast" shines a light on perceptions of obesity
• New York Times "Room for Debate" Health at Every Size
  
• BBC News Magazine Georgia obesity campaign sparks fierce online reaction
• NOLOSE.com A response to white fat activism from People of Color in the fat justice movement
  
• Health At Every Size® blog A tale of two billboards
  
• Adios Barbie Size Activists Shed Light on Fat Shaming Campaign
• Jezebel I know you're mad at Chik-Fil-A, but stop taking it out on fat people
  
• Ms. Blog Hatred Does Not Equal Health
• LA Review of Books Obesity as metaphor
  

2011

• Associated Press Amid 'war on obesity,' skeptics warn of stigma
  
• Adios Barbie Weight stigma: breaking it down with advocate and activist Marilyn Wann
  
• Daily Venus Diva Curvy Composition of the Month
  
• Fat Heffalump Inspirational Women: Marilyn Wann
• Persephone magazine Fat pride pioneers: fat pride activist Marilyn Wann

2010

• NY Daily News (with Paul Campos) Fatties, it's time to fight back
• The Observer Why 'weight diversity' activists are standing up for the right to be fat
  
• Return to Sender blog Fatties with Heads: Marilyn Wann

2009

• New York Times Heavier Americans push back on healthcare debate
• Los Angeles Times Seeking Fat acceptance
  
• Chronicle of Higher Education No Fear of Fat
• CBS News Should fat flyers pay more?
• Radio Netherlands The right to be fat
• BBC radio Is obesity cancer link fearmongering?
• The Independent Unhealthy appetite: is 'fatsploitation' fueling the obesity crisis?
• Women's International Perspective 'Fat activists' seek law banning weight discrimination
• Diversity Woman Size Doesn't Matter
• The Age Women fight for fat acceptance
  

2008

• The Telegraph Wall-E's 'fattist' satire angers fat pride groups
  
• SF Weekly Fat-is-beautiful activist Marilyn Wann protests Japan's thinness law
• Our Bodies Ourselves blog Fat anti-bias campaign
  
• York Daily Record Fat rebel to speak at York College
  

2007

• SMITHmagazine Full on with Leonard Nimoy
• Associated Press Mo'Nique takes 'F.A.T. women to France
• Reason magazine Fat pride world wide
  
• Bella Online Marilyn Wann on weight diversity
  

2006

• New York Times Big People on Campus
  
• East Bay Express Fat! Fit? Fabulous!
  

2005

• San Francisco Chronicle Obese workers getting smaller pay
  
• SFist SFist Agitates
• Big Fat Blog Three Quick Questions
  
• ITV1 Loose Women
  

2004

• Associated Press Overweight Activists Fight 'Witch Hunt'
  
• Associated Press Delegates: Michael Moore a 'fat pig'
  
• CNN Live Today
  
• Welcome to Fatland, Granada TV
  
• The Guardian Fat is fabulous, insist anti-diet protesters
• San Francisco Chronicle Our big fat fear (2004)
  
• Weekend America radio FAT!SO?

2003

• Stanford Magazine Living large: Marilyn Wann is fat. Got a problem with that?
  
• New York Times letters to the editor So your boss wants you to exercise
• Fox "Your World with Neil Cavuto" Weight Loss at the Workplace
  

2002

• CNN "Crossfire" Airline's size policy takes a pounding
  
• CNN "Crossfire" Is a fat person fit to lead an exercise class?
• CNN "Crossfire" Is obesity really bad for your health?
• Boston Globe Excesses of the war on fat
  
• Rosie magazine "Three cheers for learning to love yourself just the way you are"
• Reason Flying fat
  
• Utne Reader Fat Nation
  
• San Francisco Chronicle Land of the free, home of the fat and unhappy
• San Francisco Chronicle Southwest to make overweight buy two seats
  
• San Francisco Chronicle A burlesque show that fills the stage/it's not over 'til the fat lady strips
  

2001

• Los Angeles Times Does 'Hal' send mixed signals?
  
• KALX-FM Body Language
  
• WBUR/NPR-Boston "The Connection" Fat
  

2000

• New York Times New San Francisco ordinance decrees that all sizes fit
• People magazine Fat accompli
  
• Los Angeles Times S.F. again on cutting edge with bid to ban weight bias
  
• San Francisco Chronicle S.F. Draws bead on weight, height discrimination
  
• San Francisco Chronicle Fat people get a positive hearing in S.F.
  
• San Francisco Examiner S.F. moves to ban bias against the fat
  
• San Francisco Examiner The fat rights movement
  
• Reuters San Francisco ballet school charged with size bias
  
• San Francisco Chronicle letters to the editor Fat prejudice exists
  
• Radiance magazine Making change happen, with a little help from your friends
  

1999

• New York Times 'People of size' gather to promote fat acceptance
• San Francisco Chronicle S.F. rights commission flexes muscle/panel, fat activists write letter over gym billboard
  
• San Francisco Examiner Ammiano seeks law to protect fat folks
  
• San Francisco Chronicle Ammiano takes aim at fat bias
  
• San Francisco Examiner Persons of heft protest health club's ad
• Wired Zine and getting heard
  
• Suck.com "Marilyn Wann's tubbies-rule 'zine FAT!SO? has always stood out from the crowd, preferring to smother its readers with comedy while the others just bore them with padded statistics."
• MetroActive Features Phat Girls
  
• San Francisco Chronicle Leah Garchik's Personals
  

1998

• SalonMagazine.com FAT!SO? is relentlessly fun.
  
• Los Angeles Times For obese girl, battle of blame comes too late
  
• San Francisco Chronicle 3 years probation in obese girl's death
  
• San Francisco Chronicle Mom to be sentenced in obese girl's death
  
• San Francisco Chronicle 680-pound Girl's mom guilty of misdemanor/felony abuse unproven, judge says
  
• San Francisco Chronicle Bedsores covered 680-pound girl, expert says
  

1997

• San Francisco Examiner Fat — and that's that
  
• Associated Press Obesity death prompts neglect charge
• The Book of Zines: Readings from the Fringe, by Chip Rowe

1996

• Elle UK Heavyweight Champions
• Zinebook An interview with Marilyn Wann

1995

• "The Paget Show," audience commenter
  

Delicatus deli in Seattle. Photo by Mary McGhee.

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Huff Post Live, with Deb Burgard, Golda Poretsky, and Virgie Tovar. (2013)

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Vol•Up•2 magazine (2012)

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Chenese Lewis's Plus Model Radio show. (2009)

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CBS, "The Early Show" (2009)

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CNN, "Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell" (2009)

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NBC, "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" (2004)

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