Background Research indicates that body dissatisfaction is correlated with and often
predictive of both physical and mental health problems.“Fat talk,” a well-studied form of body
image talk in adolescents and university-aged women, has been implicated as contributing
to body dissatisfaction and mediating the relationship between body dissatisfaction and
other mental health problems. Limited research, however, has investigated fat talk across
the female lifespan. Further, consistent with most body image research, fat talk research …