We've got just what you wanted this week - another episode entitled "No Body Shame" in case y'all didn’t already get the point last time! Whit's on a mission to make "No Body Shame" a household campaign - not just for fat women, but for people of all shapes, sizes, colors and backgrounds. But will her mission end in success, or will the costs, financial and otherwise, be too much to bare? Tune in now and listen! https://www.instagram.com/the_plot_thickens_pod/?hl=en

We’ve got a MEOWvelous episode for you all today! This week on The Plot Thickens, we’re herding cats - literally! Henchi-Mayne, the Beast from the East is headed to the cat competition with his coaches, Whit and Babs. Prepare yourselves FUR REAL for an absolute furball of fun - and nerves! But don’t be a scaredy cat! Henchi is FELINE good and there’s no way Whit will let this competition end in CATastrophe. Will the judges think Henchi is just purrfect? Or will Babs and Whit’s efforts be more HISSterical? Tune in to get in on the CLAWsome fun!

This week, Whit is taking her No Body Shame Campaign to the next level - aka, she's taking it to level 1, because the campaign was formerly just a blog and a hashtag. We're starting on the journey to make merch of all kinds splashed with the NO BS logo that Whitney devised herself - a stunning blend of hearts, ballsacks, and words that don't seem to connect. Whitney may not have a logo that's not on notepaper and she may not have an actual plan for what NO BS can do for the Grasshoppers, but she's going forward with a business meeting regardless! 

This week, the scale is Whitney's nemesis. Though we aren't quite sure what she thought would happen when she dragged her scale into the kitchen to weigh herself in front of Buddy... did she think she'd be down a huge amount and be able to do a victory lap? Regardless, Whit's 10-pound uptick on the scale has her feeling some type of way - i.e., PISSED. After she sees the numbers, she starts a fight with Buddy, has a horrible workout with her trainer, and misses Glenn's long-awaited return to Tae Kwon Do. Will Whitney stay curled up in her "nap spot" eating a gallon of Ben & Jerry's? Or will she make up with Buddy and get her butt over to the Dojo on time to see Glenn back in black (or purple)? 

We've finally reached the big day - it's Whit's first day working for the Greensboro Grasshoppers and she's coming up against some seemingly insurmountable obstacles - she's got to wear khaki shorts, for one! And for another, the stadium just has SO MANY STAIRS. What's a girl to do? Sit and cry on the training table? Or get up, show out, and make a great first impression, even while looking totally nude from the waist down? 

Whitney’s worn a lot of hats in her life - dancer, dancer, dancer and dancer, to name a few. But this week on the Plot Thickens, we’re seeing Whitney in a totally new role: teen therapist? No one could have seen this coming! But don’t worry; she still manages to make things 100% about her. Will Whitney’s counseling help the little girls in her Little Big Girl Dance Class to find their self esteem? Or will Whitney agree that Rylie really might break the monkey bars? Regardless, it turns out that the little girls are struggling with a lot of the same demons as Whitney did when she was called “Baby Beluga.” But don’t worry, we don’t point fingers and say that any of them has a “whale of a tail!”

This episode, Whit says goodbye to 30 and hello to 31, but she's not doing it in the boring, usual way. She's saying "Aloha!" to BOTH! You might not know, but "aloha" means "hello" and "goodbye!" In any event, Whit is throwing a luau themed birthday party for herself and she's soliciting entertainment from the BGDC girls and a hula teacher all the way from... Charlotte! We had you going there, didn't we? And as if the hula performance wasn't stressful enough for Whit, her new boyfriend Lennie is coming to the party in a coconut bra, cowboy hat, and Hawaiian shirt. Will Lennie flounder when he's stuck alone with Babs and Glenn? Or will he wow them with his coconut bra, a telltale sign that he doesn't take himself too seriously? 

This week we’re recapping an old classic - the Penguin 5k! Can y’all believe it’s been this long since Glenn and Whit “ran” to save the penguins… of the world? We sure can’t! Whit and Glenn are setting out on a 3.1 mile adventure to prove to Whitney and all her friends that she can do hard things, even at almost 400 lbs! But will the one, single practice walk Whit takes with Glenn be enough to prepare her for race day? Or will her feet slow her down as she heads for the finish line? Tune in to find out!

How the heck did we already get to the finale of Season 13, y'all? This episode left us scratching our heads for a lot of reasons, the least of which is not the fact that we had NO IDEA it was the finale until the very end! But what do you all think? Do you think Whitney is going to embrace that GLP-1 lifestyle (aka, continue embracing the lifestyle, but finally tell the truth about it) on TV? Or will the show finally end, leaving us wanting more? Also - did Whit throw anyone else for a MASSIVE loop when she decided to actually move to Salem? Ashley wasn't the only one left wondering what hit her! Will Corinne and Sabrina live up to Whit's friendship hopes in her witchy new city, or will her dreams be dashed when they spend more time with their respective partners? 

Today’s episode has the potential to be Whitney‘s worst birthday yet… And that’s exactly how she planned it! Trust us, she can’t wait to see how crazed her friends are when she makes a very exciting announcement. But will everybody react with a “hell yeah, girl!“ like Whitney is hoping? Or will they react completely normally, like people who aren’t totally obsessed with whit’s *journey*? Todd makes his solo talking head debut this season - but we’re still worried about his status. Todd: blink twice if you’re being held captive in Whitney’s attic! Also, if you thought the road trips were over, you were wrong! Prepare to head out on the world‘s longest, most awkward car ride ever, because the passenger in the backseat is not happy! And no, we’re not talking about Goosey!

Whitney's returning to Salem this week to visit her bewitching new friends! But something is rotten in Denmark... and it's not what Whit is cooking up in her witch's cauldron! Jess starts to openly show signs of anger toward Whitney and her willingness to drop Greensboro - and her Greensboro friends - at the drop of a witch's hat. And what's going on with Jess and Isaiah's marriage? Whit starts looking at apartments in Salem, but totally ignores the fact that her potential new abode is between two throughways and might fall into the ocean. Will pregnancy roulette result in good news to Whitney (or one of the other girls in the roulette group)? Or will it be as bad of an idea as it seemed from the beginning? Tune in for answers to all these burning questions! 

This week on The Plot Thickens, we’re delving into all the worst things about Greensboro - from the perspective of everyone’s favorite Brit whose name no one can spell - Mabel! Whitney’s got Mabel in for the weekend and Mabel is pointing out everything that’s wrong with Greensboro - from the lack of men asking her out to the size to the nightlife. And don’t even get her started on the “theater district!” But will Whitney listen to Mabel and let her criticisms light à fire under her butt to move out? Or will Whitney get pregnant and decide to stick around with the only support system she has?

Are you ready to get witchy with it? Because this episode, we're back in Salem, the witch capitol of the USA to get more insights into the creepy haunts and HAINTS, and all things spooky. But don't worry - we've got some new tea to spill about the feud between Tal and Buddy - and trust us, it ain’t pretty but you're going to want to stop by and listen. 

Round and round the cauldron go; where it stops, no one knows! Welcome to the witchiest episode we've had thus far of my Big Fat Fabulous Life! Whitney and her squad of incredibly unrelated individuals are headed to SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS to set spells, meet ghosts, and hopefully catch a HAINT! 

This week, we’re finally getting the answers to a lot of questions we’ve been asking for quite some time, the most important of which is: did Whitney’s artificial insemination take? Whit is dead set on making one of two decisions: starting a family and staying in Greensboro versus moving somewhere totally different and starting fresh. But will Whitney get discouraged if this first attempt at pregnancy doesn’t go as planned? Will she fold under pressure if moving away seems too complicated? And where will she work if she moves to, say, London? All these questions and more are posed and answered on today’s episode!

This episode is jam-packed - we should have called it "a birthday and a funeral" because it incorporated both Glenn's 79th birthday and Henchi's memorial service. Though Henchi's departure was tragic for all fans of the show, his memorial service was an affair to remember - it was rife with gifts, memories and of course, lots of plastic. As for Whitney, we're still wondering if she actually inseminated herself. In this episode, she's either got a horrible and very conveniently-timed bout of food poisoning, or she might be experiencing some early effects of morning sickness. Tune in and let us know which one you think it is! 

Well, the votes are in and, thanks to Isaiah and Jess, Whitney has chosen her League Baby sperm donor! In “Twinkle, Twinkle, Fertile Star,” Whitney puts Ashley’s womb preparation skills to the test as she undergoes a full womb energy cleanse - complete with salty food from an unnamed popular fast food restaurant (McDonald’s) and a plastic turtle named Cappy (after Cappy, of course) with his own enclosure! But will the egg wash, chanting, and turtles be enough to get Whitney and Jess pregnant? Or will the fertility spells only work on one (or neither) of them? 

We're finally here on season 13 of MBFFL! We can't believe it. And to add to the fun, TLC has given your girls SCREENERS so we can watch the episodes in advance, create our episodes, and get you the recaps the day after the episodes drop on cable television! In the premier episode of MBFFL, Whitney once again fakes us out in a classic Robert Frost conundrum - two roads are diverged in Greensboro and Whit has a choice to make: will she say in Greensboro and try to start a family on her own via artificial insemination, or will she move somewhere totally different and start fresh? Season 13 holds all the answers and we can't wait to explore them together! 

Y'all - we're coming to the (temporary) end of our coverage of Season 2 of MBFFL - because we're going to pick up next week on Season 13, which drops TODAY, JULY 1! Throughout this season, we're changing our podcast drops to MONDAYS instead of TUESDAYS, so you'll be able to recap the previous week's episode the day before you watch the NEW episode!   But while we're still on Season 2... This is a landmark episode. And that's because it's the episode where we first meet Lennie. Is it just us, or did Lennie come on the scene way sooner than you all thought too? Because we were SHOCKED that he wasn't a Season 4 or 5 add-on! In any event, Whit is meeting Lennie tonight and love is in the air... or is it in the beard? Because Lennie's got a big, bushy one and it's full of scented beard cream that you know our girl Whit just goes wild for. Tune in and listen to the last episode of Season 2 before we go full speed ahead on Season 13! 

On today’s episode of the plot thickens, we are recapping a landmark moment in Whitney‘s life… She’s finally “leaving the nest!” And no, you didn’t read that wrong and your eyes do not deceive you! Whitney‘s plan to move out with her current “best friend“ Buddy is finally coming to fruition! But as Tal points out, there’s going to be a lot of temptation in that new house (a la shirtless Buddy) - will Whit be able to withstand it? Or will she buckle under the temptation of a burly man in his skivvies? Will Babs and Glenn be able to go on without Whitney in the house (and ten whole minutes away) or will they just miss her too much?