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β€œBlack women are realising we ARE beautiful!”

Annalisa Toccara opens up about cultural identity, adoption and mental health.

Founder of social enterprise 'Our Mel' Annalisa Toccara talks about embracing her identity, her role in championing people of colour and why we all need to be a bit more β€œBey”.

The event director plays host to Jen and Kat to discuss her experience of adoption and how issues surrounding her weight have affected her life. Annalisa also talks candidly about how her struggles with mental health almost led to suicide.

In this week’s Nude News, Jen’s been on her hols and has thoughts on β€œbikini bodies”. Virgo Kat’s been making lists and explains why she got β€œtotes emosh” at a George Michael tribute show...

…oh, and there’s some β€œshwap” chat!

If you are affected by any of the issues in this podcast you can find help and support by following these links:
The Samaritans are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week: www.samaritans.org/
Mind: www.mind.org.uk/
Young Minds: youngminds.org.uk/
Mental health helplines: www.nhs.uk/conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/mental-health-helplines/

You can contact Kat and Jen on the interwebs:
Twitter: @TheNakedPodcast
Instagram: The Naked Podcast
Email: nakedpodcast@bbc.co.uk

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Annalisa's social enterprise 'Our Mel': https://ourmel.org.uk/

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