Body Talk

How to Embrace Your Body and Start Living Your Best Life

By: Katie Sturino

Narrated by: Katie Sturino

Learn to love yourself and body with this adapted-for-audio guide from the body acceptance advocate, influencer, and founder of Megababe beauty.

Can you imagine how much free time you’d have if you didn’t spend so much of it body shaming yourself? Katie Sturino knows all too well what it’s like to shit talk yourself. She spent thirty years of her life feeling ashamed of her body and its self-determined wrongness. Now she doesn’t care what anyone thinks of her; she only cares that she’s happy and comfortable with herself. Body positivity and size inclusivity is still a relatively new phenomenon, but Sturino has dedicated her life to unlearning all that beauty standard BS and uses her blog, Instagram, podcast, and non-toxic, solution-oriented beauty products to share the message that changed her life: YOUR BODY IS NOT THE PROBLEM.

With Body Talk, a guide-meets-workbook, Sturino is here to help you stop obsessing about your body issues, focus on self-love, and free up space in your brain for creative and productive energy. Complete with empowering affirmations, relatable anecdotes, and actionable takeaways, Body Talk encourages you to spend less time thinking about how you look and what you eat and more time discovering your inner fierceness.

Critic reviews

“. . . it’s one of those keep-coming-back, more-support books that you can open to just about any page and find something you’re glad you read again.”—goop

“. . . as impactful as Body Talk can be for young girls and those first learning about their bodies, Sturino wrote the book for all women, regardless of shape, size, age, or experience.”—Forbes

“Sturino strives to change societal body acceptance with introspective exercises and actionable takeaways.”—Coveteur

“. . . a journey of self-acceptance and deprogramming . . .”—Glossy

“. . . shame-free, fun, cheerful, and no-nonsense . . .”—Bustle

“Body Talk should be required reading for men [and] women.”—Cup of Jo

“. . . within its colorful pages and the vibrant illustrations and positive affirmations . . . you’ll find an earnest message to women: your body is not the problem, and you are inherently worthy of love.”—Motherly

“. . . a self-help guide about getting over negativity from outside cultural forces . . .”—WWD

“[Body Talk] is a bar of body acceptance that . . . feels accessible.”—Vogue

“Katie Sturino’s body acceptance manifesto is the must-read book of the summer.”—NewBeauty

Exactly what I need to hear in 2021

I cannot love this book more. Katie’s voice in my ears as I walk around New York with all my “enoughs” is exactly what I needed to hear to finally start unpacking all the ways I have felt badly about myself for the last few years.

Her performance is fantastic, and I cannot wait to listen again to delve into the homework assignments. I’m buying a physical copy of this book to have at home for my tween daughter as she gets older.

Bravo, Katie!

Super fun and filled with good advice

I really enjoyed this and not just because Katie is one of my favorite people ever on Instagram. This was witty and lighthearted while still compassionate and warm. It was a super fun and short and I loved the audiobook version where she narrates. I thought she hit some great bullet points and this only made me like her more.

This should be required reading!

Just when I thought I couldn’t love Katie anymore she has written a book for me (and everyone) about a major struggle in my (and most people’s) life! I will be buying this book for all of my friends and family. I bought the hardcover and the audible just to hear Katie tell me that I am worthy!

Amen to that!

A wonderful heartfelt read on how to stop hate talking yourself. Katie tells it like it is. Amen to that!!!!

this book is for everyone

And everyone should read it / listen to it. I wish this book had existed when I was a preteen - but the best time to plant a tree is 10 years ago, the second best time is today. Be kinder to yourself, be kinder to your loved ones - and wear the tshirt!