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A Woman to Know: Lulu Hunt Peters

A Woman to Know: Lulu Hunt Peters

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Julia Carpenter
Mar 03, 2017
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Thin is in. — Lulu Hunt Peters

(image via The Huffington Post)


Lulu Hunt Peters wrote "Key to the Calories," the first diet book in America to make the bestsellers' list -- the first of very, very many, as we can see today at any bookstore.

Lulu herself struggled with body image from a very young age. As a young woman in the Belle Epoque era, when wome…

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