Meanings
- informalForms words to describe content (usually on social media) intended as inspiration to achieve a certain goal.
By tagging representations of positive fatness as fatspo, they disrupt the discourse on what bodies are aspirational.
2016, Cat Pausé, Jackie Wykes, Samantha Murray, Queering Fat Embodiment, Routledge, →ISBN2 more examples
For a lot of people, their social media feeds have disproportionate levels of fitspo or healthspo; they're not reflective of our overall interests.
2018, Laura Thomas, Just Eat It: How intuitive eating can help you get your shit together around food, Boxtree, →ISBNSearches for #proana, #thinspiration, or #bonespo (used for 'inspiring' images of people with visible bones) won't show any results at all, even though the tags are still widely in use.
2020, Pixie Turner, The Insta-Food Diet: How Social Media has Shaped the Way We Eat, Head of Zeus Ltd, →ISBN
Origin
From inspo, a clipping of inspiration. Popularised by thinspo.
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-spo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-spo
“-spo.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-spo. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “-spo,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-spo.
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