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Stephanie Yeboah | |
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| Born | 5 May 1989 South London, England |
| Education | Croydon College (A-levels) Kingston University (BA in Law) |
| Occupation | Writer · Journalist · Content creator · Body image advocate · Curator |
| Notable work | Fattily Ever After (2020) Chaotic Energy (2025) |
| Website | https://stephanieyeboah.com/ |
Stephanie Yeboah (born 5 May[1]) is a British Ghanaian author, journalist, content creator, body image advocate and curator[2][3]. She is known for her commentary on fatphobia, misogynoir and body image[4], and for her work within the body positivity movement in the United Kingdom.[5] Yeboah is the author of Fattily Ever After: The Fat, Black Girls’ Guide to Living Life Unapologetically (2020)[6] and the novel Chaotic Energy (2025)[7]. She has written for publications including British Vogue[8], Elle[9] and The Guardian[10]. In February 2020, she appeared on the cover of Glamour UK’s digital issue.[11]
Early life and education
[edit]Yeboah was born in South London, England and raised in Battersea and Croydon[12]. She also spent two years of her childhood living in Ghana in 1997.[13]
She attended Pimlico Secondary School and later studied at Croydon College, before graduating from Kingston University with a BA in law in 2010.[14]
During her second year at university, she became interested in creative writing and started to reconsider pursuing law. She subsequently created a Blogger site, later named Nerd About Town, beginning with pop-culture content before broadening into beauty, fashion, and personal essays.[15]
Career
[edit]Early career and blogging
[edit]After graduating, Yeboah worked as a medical secretary at a hospital and later as a public relations executive at a boutique marketing agency, having decided not to pursue a legal career. She continued to blog as a hobby during this time.[16]
Yeboah has built a writing portfolio centred on body image, race, and travel, with her work appearing in British Vogue[8], Elle[9], The Guardian[10], Refinery29,[17] Stylist[18], Fodor’s Travel,[19] and Lonely Planet[20]. She is a contributing style editor for Marie Claire UK, where she writes fashion features focused on plus-size style and inclusivity.[21]
Body image advocacy and activism
[edit]From around 2017, Yeboah began to focus more heavily on plus-size fashion and body image, becoming associated with the body positivity and fat acceptance movements in the UK.[5]She has spoken about the intersections between fatphobia, sustainability[22], racism, and misogynoir, particularly as they affect Black plus-size women. Yeboah has published numerous articles on body image, including widely shared work for British Vogue [23]and BBC Woman’s Hour.[24]
She submitted evidence to the British Youth Council at Parliament in 2017 on the body positivity movement and the importance of teaching body confidence in secondary schools.[25]
In 2018, Yeboah fronted a high-profile outdoor campaign for the plus-size fashion brand Navabi, created in response to a controversial “beach body” advertising campaign widely criticised for its narrow beauty standards.[26]
Writing
[edit]Yeboah's debut book, Fattily Ever After: The Fat, Black Girls’ Guide to Living Life Unapologetically, was published by Hardie Grant in 2020.[6] The non-fiction work combines memoir, cultural criticism and interviews to examine fatphobia, beauty standards, mental health, dating, family dynamics and media representation from the perspective of Black plus-size women.[27]
Her second book, Chaotic Energy, is a romantic comedy that draws on Yeboah's experiences of online dating and her own teenage experience of being catfished. The novel follows Artemis “Temz”, a Black plus-size woman whose digital flirtation with a tech entrepreneur becomes complicated when she catfishes him using another woman's photographs. It explores themes of modern dating, insecurity, deception and friendship.[28]
Jewellery collection and brand collaborations
[edit]In October 2024, Yeboah collaborated with British jewellery brand Ottoman Hands on a 26-piece size-inclusive collection inspired by her Ghanaian heritage and Adinkra symbolism.[29]
Public speaking, broadcasting and curation
[edit]Yeboah has appeared as a guest on BBC Radio 4's Woman’s Hour,[30] where she has discussed body image and her writing and on podcasts including Jameela Jamil's I Weigh[31] and The Guilty Feminist.[32] She has also featured on television, including segments on the ITV breakfast show Lorraine.[33]
As a public speaker, Yeboah has taken part in talks and panels on body image and wellness at events including The Beauty Beat[34], the Black British Book Festival[35], the Women of the World Festival [36]and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.[37]
In 2025, she curated Beauty in Fluidity for the University of the Arts London Showcase, an exhibition examining beauty, gender and bodies as fluid and culturally shaped.[2]
Personal life
[edit]Yeboah has written about her experiences of childhood bullying, colourism and the impact of racism and fatphobia on her self-esteem.[38][39]
Bibliography
[edit]Books
[edit]Awards and recognition
[edit]- Blogger of the Year, Blogosphere Awards (2019)[40]
References
[edit]- ↑ "DIARY Influencer: Stephanie Yeboah". www.diarydirectory.com. Retrieved 2026-02-26.
- 1 2 "Beauty in Fluidity - UAL Showcase". ualshowcase.arts.ac.uk. Retrieved 2026-02-26.
- ↑ "Articles by Stephanie Yeboah, Freelance writer, author and content creator". Marie Claire UK. Retrieved 2026-02-26.
- ↑ "Stephanie Yeboah interview: 'Reclaiming the word fat has taken away ammunition from trolls'". The Independent. 2020-10-04. Retrieved 2026-02-26.
- 1 2 "Meet The Women Redefining The Body Positive Movement". BuzzFeed. Archived from the original on 2023-12-08. Retrieved 2026-02-26.
- 1 2 3 "Hardie Grant signs Stephanie Yeboah début". The Bookseller. Retrieved 2026-02-26.
- 1 2 "Trapeze Books falls for Yeboah's Big Chaotic Energy". The Bookseller. Retrieved 2026-02-26.
- 1 2 Yeboah, Stephanie (2025-09-27). "Why I No Longer Want To Hear Dating Advice From Conventionally Attractive People". British Vogue. Retrieved 2026-02-26.
- 1 2 "Why Are Women Of Colour Left Out Of Body Positivity?". ELLE. 2017-09-15. Retrieved 2026-02-26.
- 1 2 Yeboah, Stephanie (2020-08-23). "Stephanie Yeboah: 'How I learned to stop using my body as a punch bag'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2026-02-26.
- ↑ Smith, Josh (2020-02-17). "The new faces of beauty: Meet the 11 inspirational cover stars of GLAMOUR's self-love issue". Glamour UK. Retrieved 2026-02-26.
- ↑ May, Naomi (2021-04-12). "My Shop London: journalist and author Stephanie Yeboah". The Standard. Retrieved 2026-02-26.
- ↑ Bowe, Sarah Raphael,Chrissie Abbott,Montse Tanús,Cate Sevilla,Amelia. "'I Was Ridiculed For All The Features I Now Love': Two Black Women Speak Honestly About Self-Esteem & Body Positivity". www.refinery29.com. Retrieved 2026-02-26.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ "Stephanie Yeboah". The Dots. Archived from the original on 2025-02-14. Retrieved 2026-02-26.
- ↑ "Spotify – Web Player". Spotify. Retrieved 2026-02-26.
- ↑ "Spotify – Web Player". Spotify. Retrieved 2026-02-26.
- ↑ Yeboah, Stephanie. "For Black Fat Women, Is The Body Positivity Movement Dead?". www.refinery29.com. Retrieved 2026-02-26.
- ↑ "BMI discriminates against Black women like me – why do we use it?". www.stylist.co.uk. 2024-07-09. Retrieved 2026-02-26.
- ↑ Yeboah, Stephanie (2022-06-27). "How to Slay Your Vacation With Confidence as a Plus-Size Traveler". Fodors Travel Guide. Retrieved 2026-02-26.
- ↑ Yeboah, Stephanie. "Plus size summer fashion: Stephanie Yeboah's guide to your ultimate travel wardrobe". Lonely Planet. Retrieved 2026-02-26.
- ↑ "These Are Officially the Best Plus-Size Jeans On the Market". Marie Claire UK. 2025-04-18. Retrieved 2026-02-26.
- ↑ Crisis_UK (2025-02-18). Bridging the gap: plus-sizes in preloved fashion. Talk hosted by Nyome Nicholas-Williams | Crisis UK. Retrieved 2026-02-26 – via YouTube.
- ↑ Yeboah, Stephanie (2020-05-30). "Body Positivity: Why The Work Is Far From Finished". British Vogue. Retrieved 2026-02-26.
- ↑ "BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour - Stephanie Yeboah: Fat people are not a monolith, we are not all the same". BBC. Retrieved 2026-02-26.
- ↑ "Youth Select Committee to question the experts on 'Body Image". www.parliament.uk. Retrieved 2026-02-26.
- ↑ McNamara, Brittney (2018-05-03). "This Ad Shows the True Meaning of "Beach Body Ready"". Teen Vogue. Retrieved 2026-02-26.
- ↑ "Stephanie Yeboah: 'I can be fat and still look like a snack'". Metro. 2020-09-03. Retrieved 2026-02-26.
- ↑ "Stephanie Yeboah on her new romcom book, Chaotic Energy". www.stylist.co.uk. 2025-04-01. Retrieved 2026-02-26.
- ↑ "Stephanie Yeboah x Ottoman Hands *finally* addresses size inclusive jewellery". Cosmopolitan. 2024-10-09. Retrieved 2026-02-26.
- ↑ "BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Supreme Court Judgement, Roblox, Novelist Stephanie Yeboah, Singer/songwriter Georgia Crandon". BBC. Retrieved 2026-02-26.
- ↑ "Stephanie Yeboah". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 2026-02-26.
- ↑ "Spotify – Web Player". Spotify. Retrieved 2026-02-26.
- ↑ Lorraine (2020-09-10). Plus-Size Blogger Stephanie Yeboah Is on a Mission to Tackle Fat-Phobia | Lorraine. Retrieved 2026-02-26 – via YouTube.
- ↑ The Beauty Beat (2025-11-25). Our Wellness Panel: Live From the Beauty Beat 2025. Retrieved 2026-02-26 – via YouTube.
- ↑ "Black British Book Festival 2025 | Barbican". www.barbican.org.uk. 2025-10-19. Retrieved 2026-02-26.
- ↑ "WOW announces day pass events for 2023 London Festival". The WOW Foundation. Retrieved 2026-02-26.
- ↑ Unpacking fatphobia and weight discrimination and their deadly repercussions. Retrieved 2026-02-26 – via www.youtube.com.
- ↑ "I don't care if you're 'fascinated' by my afro, stop touching it". Metro. 2019-09-09. Retrieved 2026-02-26.
- ↑ Yeboah, Stephanie (2019-04-08). "My toxic love affair with skin lightening creams". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2026-02-26.
- ↑ bCreator (2020-01-28). "Catching up with Stephanie Yeboah - Blogger of The Year Winner, Blogosphere Awards 2019". bCreator™. Retrieved 2026-02-26.
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