Padded Lilies
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The Padded Lilies are a water ballet troupe of heavy-set women based out of Oakland, California, United States.[1][2] The group was founded by fat activist Shirley Sheffield in 1997[3] to promote "synchronized swimming, body-acceptance, fat-empowerment, and fitness at any size."[4] The Padded Lilies have been profiled in People magazine, interviewed by the British Medical Journal,[5] and featured on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno[6] and in the short film "Weightless."[7] In 2003 filmmaker Julie Wyman made a 27min film about the Padded Lilies called Buoyant.[8] Fat activist Marilyn Wann has swum with them.
In the UK, the Padded Lilies have featured in a BBC scientific program called Horizon's 2002episode entitled 'Fat Busters'. The program looked at the belief of the swim troup that a slow metabolism caused their size and then showed that although science had proven fat people to actually have faster metabolisms, there were a variety of ways in which there could be truth in the Lilies' idea that there was something genetic about their size.[9]
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Notes
- ↑ Thorkelson, Berit (n.d.). Dive Right In. FigureMagazine.com
- ↑ Naked on the Inside Press Kit (2007).
- ↑ Thorkelson, Berit (n.d.). Dive Right In. FigureMagazine.com
- ↑ PaddedLilies.com
- ↑ Hammond, Phil (1999). "Fat, Fighting Fit." BMJ.
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- ↑ "Weightless" on imdb.com
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