Years before U.S. Olympic Rugby star Ilona Maher went viral for her uplifting message of body positivity, there was romance novelist Olivia Dade, whose rich, resonant, sexy, and occasionally hilarious romances championed big, beautiful lovers of every size and shape. “Fat isn’t a pejorative,” she says, “it’s merely a descriptor…
JeriAnn GellerNovember 25, 2025
