A little birdy told me… Insatiable, a new show about fat-shaming, was joining the Netflix originals ensemble. At first glance, I didn’t care for it because (sorry) it was another white girl’s tale. If you haven’t been online, you’ll know initial reactions to the show’s trailer were less than impressed. You’d think a show like this, in 2018, would be pushing the…
I’ll be vulnerable for a moment… There are still days when I can’t stand living in my body. It puts on more weight when I think I’m eating light, the weight fluctuates, and then I scroll past the many Instagram thots to place my bitterness and envy towards. But you’ve heard this story before. Fat girl goes online, compares herself to…
I’ve become somewhat of an expert… on being the token fat friend to a straight-size person. In nearly all of the “circles” I’ve been a part of, which, in my opinion, isn’t many, I’ve known a backhanded compliment whenever served. And being told I was “not that fat” (the title of this blog post) is a prime example of that.…
There’s something really curious… about men and how different types of men vary in response to dating. Growing up in a predominately white neighborhood, a lot of my celebrity crushes encompassed either Jesse McCartney, Nick Jonas or Ryan Cabrera (yeah, I admit to that). But in my mind, I knew early on that the guys who absolutely just wouldn’t (and…
I adore my friends. They care about me, support me in (almost) everything that I do. As we went through high school together, I saw myself in the world from a different perspective because I was the fat friend of the group. I was approximately more than 100 lbs overweight compared to my friends. Despite all of us being black,…
