This article looks through this memoir to find out Roxane Gay's attitude towards these messages in showing how people accept, react, and subvert these messages.
Roxane Gay's Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body is a memoir of her own body, traumatic journey, and fatness.
There is much scholarly research about the impact of popular culture messages regarding fatness on people, but there is limited study on people's attitudes to those fat-shaming messages.