My plus-size button-down dress moment

On impossible sizing, secondhand stalking and the quest for the perfect dress.

Sep 10 • Kristi Koeter

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August 2026

August recap: How individual are our body choices, anyway?

The question I keep coming back to as thinness gets more extreme and our bodies come under more scrutiny. Plus the memoir I’m loving right now.

Aug 27 • Kristi Koeter

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I shouldn’t have to prove what my body can do

For years, I used adventure to prove that gaining weight hadn’t diminished me. Hanging off a cliff in Quebec, I finally questioned why my body needed to…

Aug 20 • Kristi Koeter

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The reason thinness is becoming more extreme

It's not just GLP-1s. A culture obsessed with optimization and status is pushing the ideal of thinness to new extremes.

Aug 14 • Kristi Koeter

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July recap: The place that made us rethink our next chapter

Our summer trip through New York and Quebec changed the conversation about where, and how, we want to live.

Aug 6 • Kristi Koeter

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July 2026

The whales don't care how fat you are

I went to Quebec hoping to see whales. I came home with a new perspective on body image, self-preoccupation, and the power of awe.

Jul 31 • Kristi Koeter

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Why I never know how I'm going to feel in my body until I get there

Four years after quitting diets, I've realized my body image has surprisingly little to do with my body and a lot to do with where I am.

Jul 16 • Kristi Koeter

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June in the rearview

The stories that stayed with me, plus a look at what's ahead.

Jul 2 • Kristi Koeter

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June 2026

The Sephora employee who tried to save me

All I wanted was a tinted sunscreen that could stand up to Texas in summer and, perhaps, a little mountain biking.

Jun 19 • Kristi Koeter

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Too fat, too thin, too old, too sexy

What the SI Swimsuit Runway Show reveals about our beliefs around beauty, aging, and women’s bodies.

Jun 11 • Kristi Koeter

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May 2026

The divine pleasure of not waiting

The freedom that comes when you stop waiting to become someone else before fully inhabiting your life.

May 28 • Kristi Koeter

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You do not fit in this space

On fat-shaming hotel robes, chasing Catskill waterfalls, and the radical act of loving the body you hiked in.

May 21 • Kristi Koeter

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