Molly Forbes launched the #FreeFromDiets campaign in June 2019, founded on her belief that schools & places of child play should be safe spaces where children and young people aren’t at risk of being body shamed or exposed to harmful messaging around dieting and diet culture, or encouraged - whether inadvertently or not - to focus on ideas around restricting food and aspiring to a particular body type.

The Body Happy Parents event is the 2nd part of a 3 part event series created to raise awareness of the campaign and open up the conversation around the topic through discussion led by a panel of experts and hosted by Molly Forbes. We will follow up the panel discussion with an open Q&A session, allowing the audience to ask questions & share their experiences with the panel.

The aim of each of these events is for the #FreeFromDiets team to leave with ideas of tangible problems & issues in this area from the audience, these will then be taken into a roundtable discussion the following day with the #FreeFromDiets team, policy makers and people in position of power to make change, we will decide on one select problem from each event, which the #FreeFromDiets team will then work to solve. As an example, we envisage a potential problem being, how do we change our language around children to be more body happy? We will then put together a manifesto & top tips of language swaps for parents.

Join Molly to be involved in the change and support the #FreeFromDiets campaign.

Molly Forbes (host) will be joined by the following panelists:

Tova Leigh - Tova is a writer, and video creator. She started her successful blog My Thoughts About Stuff less than four years ago where she shared the truth about being a mom, from mom guilt to stretch marks without holding back. Her words and viral videos resonated with millions of women world word and had gained her a loyal following. Her channels are about life, relationships, body image, sexuality, sex, women's rights and parenting. She also presents a weekly podcast #nailedit with her husband Mike and a weekly live show on Facebook called Pyjama Party and Confessions. Her documentary film Mom Life Crisis where she talks about trying to rediscover herself beyond motherhood is currently available on Amazon Prime. Tova is taking her live show on a UK and US tour in March 2020 which is also when her first book 'F*cked at 40' is due to come out.

Kerri Northcott - (Life With Ivy Coco) is a popular parenting and fashion influencer who regularly posts about body image and diet culture. Kerri will be sharing her thoughts on this topic from a parenting perspective and also of her own journey.

Laura Phelan - (Phelan Well) - ED specialist, body image expert, Harley St therapist and international speaker. Laura will be sharing her own story demonstrating the importance of protecting children when they are young from potentially harmful diet messaging.

Dr.Tosin Sotubo - (Mind Body Doctor) - A woman on a mission to empower a healthier society, NHS & Private GP. Dr Tosin will be approaching this from a medical perspective.

Don't miss out on this fantastic line up!