2011 Love Your Body Day Host

6th Annual Hollywood NOW Love Your Body Day Announces Meghan McCain as 2011 Celebrity Host.

The Hollywood Chapter of the National Organization for Women kicks off Love Your Body celebration October 21nd through October 23th

Los Angeles, CA, August 30, 2011 - Hollywood NOW, the local Chapter of the 45-year-old national organization working to bring women and men into full equality, co sponsored by the city of West Hollywood , has announced Meghan McCain as the 2011 celebrity host of Hollywood NOW Love Your Body Day.

 Love Your Body Day is an annual event where women of all sizes come together to celebrate a day of self-acceptance to promote positive body image. The celebration has expanded to a weekend full of events, which includes a launch party, festival, and body image panel discussion. The Love Your Body community celebration will unfold October 21-23, 2010 in West Hollywood.

Meghan McCain will host the festival which will take place Saturday, October 22rd at West Hollywood Park Auditorium, from 12-4 pm. Admission is free. West Hollywood Auditorium is located at 647 N. San Vicente in West Hollywood. The community event will include performances by various singers, actors, dancers, and spoken word artists. The pinnacle of the festivities is the "real women" fashion show where models will be flaunting the styles of various plus-size designers and retailers.

“I think Meghan McCain is a great host for our Love Your Body Day celebration because she a positive role model for young women, but despite her many accomplishes keeps getting verbally attacked about her curvy frame in the media. We are both fed up with our society’s obsession with thinness and unrealistic standard of beauty,” said Chenese Lewis, president, Hollywood NOW. “United, we hope to send a positive message to young women that beauty comes in all colors, shapes, and sizes.”

For more information about Hollywood NOW Love Your Body Day visit www.loveyourbodyday.com

About Meghan McCain
Meghan McCain writes a weekly column for the website/blog THE DAILY BEAST. Prior to joining THE DAILY BEAST McCain worked on her father's 2008 Presidential campaign where she created the website McCainblogette.com which provided a very personal inside look at daily life on the campaign trail. Over the course of 2 years, she traveled with her father to every one of the 48 continental United States. McCain has previously written for Newsweek Magazine and during college worked at Saturday Night Live. She is a New York Times best selling author of "My Father: John McCain" and "Dirty, Sexy Politics". McCain is a 2007 graduate of Columbia University and currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

About Hollywood NOW
Hollywood NOW is a local chapter of the National Organization for Women. The National Organization for Women (NOW) is the largest organization of feminist activists in the United States. NOW has 500,000 contributing members and 550 chapters in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Since its founding in 1966, NOW's goal has been to take action to bring about equality for all women. NOW works to eliminate discrimination and harassment in the workplace, schools, the justice system, and all other sectors of society; secure abortion, birth control and reproductive rights for all women; end all forms of violence against women; eradicate racism, sexism and homophobia; and promote equality and justice in our society.

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