I had more dates in a month in the US than I would in a decade in Australia.
Seriously. As a fat girl I never had dates while living in Australia – but as soon as I moved to Los Angeles everything changed. Men asked me out left, right and centre.
Guys literally chased me out of bars just to speak to me (one of those encounters even turned into a three year relationship.)
I was single, ready to flamingle and life in Hollywood was amazing and everything you’d imagine.
My plus size blog Big Curvy Love was kicking along, I was working in podcasting, rocking fabulous fashion and for once in my life finally felt like a legit part of the deep end of the dating pool.
I even launched my own 50 Fat Dates project as a way of documenting my experience in the plus size dating world.
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It is just Australia. Australia is not a friendly place for dating. My funniest experience was when I was the personal lawyer to a centimillionaire and we traveled to Australia for a transaction. No one knew he was the principal equity holder in the U.S. company. After the conclusion of the transaction, at a party, he made the "mistake" of inviting one of the Australian office female temporary employees out, who had worked on the project and who would now cease to work on the project and for the company. She politely declined the invitation. He was divorced and remarried about a year later.
The HR Department of the company taken over rang me to complain about this invitation - big age difference, etc. He was "reported" by some of the other women who worked with her - not the woman herself. HR wanted him to attend a mediation about a once off invitation! He never returned to Australia. He disposed of the group in a further deal about 3 months later.
The sad joke was that the woman herself contacted me to try to renew the invitation, but by this time, his wealth was known and the invitation was declined on his behalf through HR. This was not because anyone wished to embarrass her, but because Australia, by then, seemed to us, a very weird place. He is a moderately conservative Christian, so there was nothing about his conduct that would give rise to any concern. I saw him ask.
He asked a Polish lady out a few weeks later. In a similar situation. She now is married to him, has two children, drives a Bentley coupe and wears haute couture creations, etc. They appear to be in love.
Australia is a funny place. It is not your weight.
Could you please stop shaming everyone who isn't fat?