In the article “Fat and Happy: In Defense of Fat Acceptance”, Mary Ray Worley explains that it is possible to be fat and yet happy with your body. She discovered this for herself at a conference in San Diego. In August 2000, Worley attended the annual convention of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance and she felt as if she was visiting another planet (Worley 163). Her eyes were opened to the possibility that fat people did not have to feel ashamed about their bodies. She explains the first time she had that “different planet” feeling was at the pool party on the first night of the convention (163). In her “planet”, it was expected that a fat person should feel embarrassed to wear any swimsuit, but here were a hundred or so fat
