... Does This Make Me Look Fat? Aesthetic Labor and Fat Talk as Emotional Labor in a Women’s Plus-Size Clothing Store Kjerstin Gruys, University of California, Los Angeles Drawing on participant ... JSTOR Terms and Conditions Does This Make Me Look Fat? Fat Talk as Emotional Labor: Feeling Rules and Aesthetics Real Style customers’ and managers’ frequent conversations about dieting, and requests ... including carpooling, sharing meals at the corner diner, and attending a movie, a baby shower, and a coworker’s funeral I was open with coworkers about my status as a graduate student, and that I was...