Thin is in. — Lulu Hunt Peters (image via The Huffington Post) Lulu Hunt Peters wrote "Key to the Calories," the first diet book in America to make the bestsellers' list -- the first of very, very many, as we can see today at any bookstore. Lulu herself struggled with body image from a very young age. As a young woman in the Belle Epoque era, when women sported fuller figures, her weight yoyo'd up and down. And in the 1920s, when the wasp waist flapper look hit the scene, she developed her own regimen to fit in, losing 50 pounds in the process. At this time, writing the preliminary chapters of her future bestseller, she told her friends about the "moral evil" of weight gain, describing her own self-disgust at what she saw as a lack of control in "lesser" diet plans.
A Woman to Know: Lulu Hunt Peters
A Woman to Know: Lulu Hunt Peters
A Woman to Know: Lulu Hunt Peters
Thin is in. — Lulu Hunt Peters (image via The Huffington Post) Lulu Hunt Peters wrote "Key to the Calories," the first diet book in America to make the bestsellers' list -- the first of very, very many, as we can see today at any bookstore. Lulu herself struggled with body image from a very young age. As a young woman in the Belle Epoque era, when women sported fuller figures, her weight yoyo'd up and down. And in the 1920s, when the wasp waist flapper look hit the scene, she developed her own regimen to fit in, losing 50 pounds in the process. At this time, writing the preliminary chapters of her future bestseller, she told her friends about the "moral evil" of weight gain, describing her own self-disgust at what she saw as a lack of control in "lesser" diet plans.