7/6/16, California Magazine, Campaign for Fat Acceptance: Big Girls Do Cry, but They Grow Up and Fight Back, by Katherine Seligman

Commenting on Virgie Tovar: ““Virgie just lives her life unabashedly,” says Linda Bacon, an associate nutritionist at UC Davis and author of Health at Any Size, who attended the festival. “She is an incredible role model…. She embodies herself.”