Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Body size, income, and opportunity are more connected than we tend to admit. In this video, friend of TFD, Kara Perez, breaks down how BMI (and the biases around it) can impact hiring, wages, and career growth—especially for women—while also exploring the bigger picture: how class, access to food, and the rise of wellness as a luxury good shape who is able to be “healthy” in the first place.
FINANCIAL PRODUCTS WE PERSONALLY RECOMMEND:
Financial Advisory - Advisor.com: bit.ly/ytkp41226
Investing - Betterment: bit.ly/41226kpyt
Budgeting - Monarch: bit.ly/4sq0H5Z
Kara is the founder of Kara Explores Money & author of Money For Change. Find more from Kara here:
-Follow her here: instagram.com/karaexploresmoney
-You can purchase Kara's book, Money For Change, here: bookshop.org/p/books/money-for-change-how-to-reduce-waste-build-wealth-and-create-a-better-future-for-all-kara-perez/67361feb311f3e8b
SOURCE LINKS:
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/evidence-based-living/202312/what-we-know-about-the-obesity-pay-gap
https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/bmi-a-poor-metric-for-measuring-peoples-health-say-experts/
stlouisfed.org/publications/regional-economist/october-2011/worth-your-weight-reexamining-the-link-between-obesity-and-wages
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5014305/#pone.0159659.ref002
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5014305
cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db50.htm
nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cpb/college-enrollment-rate
pewresearch.org/2023/12/04/wealth-gaps-across-racial-and-ethnic-groups
Body size, income, and opportunity are more connected than we tend to admit. In this video, friend of TFD, Kara Perez, breaks down how BMI (and the biases around it) can impact hiring, wages, and career growth—especially for women—while also exploring the bigger picture: how class, access to food, and the rise of wellness as a luxury good shape who is able to be “healthy” in the first place.
FINANCIAL PRODUCTS WE PERSONALLY RECOMMEND:
Financial Advisory - Advisor.com: bit.ly/ytkp41226
Investing - Betterment: bit.ly/41226kpyt
Budgeting - Monarch: bit.ly/4sq0H5Z
Kara is the founder of Kara Explores Money & author of Money For Change. Find more from Kara here:
-Follow her here: instagram.com/karaexploresmoney
-You can purchase Kara's book, Money For Change, here: bookshop.org/p/books/money-for-change-how-to-reduce-waste-build-wealth-and-create-a-better-future-for-all-kara-perez/67361feb311f3e8b
SOURCE LINKS:
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/evidence-based-living/202312/what-we-know-about-the-obesity-pay-gap
https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/bmi-a-poor-metric-for-measuring-peoples-health-say-experts/
stlouisfed.org/publications/regional-economist/october-2011/worth-your-weight-reexamining-the-link-between-obesity-and-wages
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5014305/#pone.0159659.ref002
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5014305
cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db50.htm
nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cpb/college-enrollment-rate
pewresearch.org/2023/12/04/wealth-gaps-across-racial-and-ethnic-groups
