I’ve moaned and groaned… about everything from the way fat women in media are portrayed to learning how to wear you the best way possible. However, we’ve still got a long way to go before we can fully comprehend that fat people are just people. So, to remind you of how ignorant you still are, I’ve rounded out what I…
Normally, I don’t do dresses. A dress is the one item of clothing that makes me feel less than comfortable in my body. All day long, you’ll pull and fidget with wedgies and length. Plus size dresses in particular make me look ridiculous because of my ass-to-waist ratio. No, that’s not me bragging, and on my low days, I can’t’…
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,…
People are used to… seeing the same mainstream image over and over. Soon, it’s hard to look oneself in the mirror only to realize that they’re not one of them. That’s how little I felt crushing on every white boy in my all white school. I thought I wasn’t good enough and too fat to date, period. I never liked…
