Bare Marriage

Sheila Gregoire

Tired of Christian pat answers about marriage? The podcast that goes in-depth into marriage, parenting, and even sex--to see how we can live the passionate life we were meant for. Paired with Bare Marriage--the blog!

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Bare Marriage

Episodes (334)

Feb 26th Episode 317: Famished--How Purity Culture Taught Women to Shrink with Anna Rollins
Feb 19th Episode 316: What Still Surprised Us Making the Love & Respect Docuseries
Feb 12th Bad Stats, Editing the Bible, and Recycling 1970s Ideas: A Love & Respect Deep Dive Part 2

Bare Marriage

Feb 26, 2026
56½ minutes
38 MB

Send a text Anna Rollins grew up as the kind of girl who took her faith seriously — and that's exactly why it hurt her so much. In this conversation, Anna and I dig into her memoir Famished: On Food, Sex, and Growing Up as a Good Girl, where she traces how purity culture's messages about desire, self-denial, and the body quietly fueled decades of disordered eating, compulsive exercise, and sexual pain. What strikes me most is that Anna's parents were loving, her church wasn't overtly abusive — and yet the cumulative message she absorbed was shrink yourself. I think...

Bare Marriage

Episode 317: Famished--How Purity Culture Taught Women to Shrink with Anna Rollins

Sheila Gregoire

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