When she runs into her sister’s ex-boyfriend, Mike, after an encounter with another person with “good intentions,” he doesn’t recognize her, but she definitely remembers him. Because she’s newly single and ready to encourage women just like her to love their bodies-and dress them well. If she wants a cookie, she’s going to have one. And that representation helps, as one Rioter wrote earlier.Įllis is tired of everyone trying to control her size. But they all have authentic representations of fat women both in the United States and beyond. Some stories bring the heroine’s size to the forefront, while others make it simply part of the heroine’s life. The books I’ve pulled together are a combination of fat women some of them are more cool with their bodies, while others are less happy with their size, appearance, and general life experiences. They will rarely have anything in the description directly related to the heroine’s size sometimes, we might think from the description that she’s being coded as fat, but really she’s just a touch overweight and has a thing for chocolate or donuts. A few larger presses have been known to produce one or two romance series in which one or two of the lady love interests might be overweight, but it’s not nearly the same. The BBW category is growing rampantly in romance, particularly with self- and small-publishing. When we see the letters BBW, there’s only one phrase we think of: Big Beautiful Women.

For some book professionals, BBW is short for Banned Book Week, which often makes us romance readers who are also book professionals cringe a little bit.

If you’re a regular romance reader, the letters BBW are probably familiar to you, even if you’ve just seen them pop up in an Amazon search.

Bet me novel