Why was it necessary to write Real Girls Eat?
That’s the thing I was getting a lot of parents writing to me about. I needed to keep my readers moving forward, and biochemically speaking it’s a crucial thing for the other six projects. Without a good sense of food, and the skills to choose and cook it, you just can’t manage the total mind-body-spirit of Girlosophy. All of Girlosophy is aimed at girls from about 14 to 24, but of course there is a massive swing on the upside of that. Mothers are reading it with their daughters. Real Girls Eat is fairly critical about fast food giants like McDonalds, magazines targeted at young girls, and fad diets, and yet the books have been lauded by Dolly and entertainers like Britney Spears. Has it changed anything in the messages that magazines like Dolly or performers like Spears dish out? I definitely have struck a nerve and I’m finding that magazines and performers are becoming more responsible about the messages they present, understanding that role modelling happens in subtle and overt ways
