Fat Girl
A True Story
Chapter One
I am fat. I am not so fat that I can't fasten the seatbelt on the plane. But, fat I am. I wanted to
write about what it was and is like for me, being fat.
This will not be a book about how I had an eating disorder and how I conquered this disorder
through therapies or group process or antidepressants or religion or twelve-step programs or a
personal trainer or white knuckling it or the love of a good man (or woman). This will be the last
time in this book you will see the words "eating disorder." I am not a fat activist. This is not about
the need for acceptance of fat people, although I would prefer that thinner people not find me
disgusting.
I know, from being thin and listening to thin people talk about fat people, that thin people often
denigrate fat people. At best, they feel sorry for them. I know too that when a thin person looks at
a fat person, the thin person considers the fat person less virtuous than he. The fat person lacks
willpower, pride, this wretched attitude, "self esteem," and does not care about friends or family
because if he or she did care about friends or family, he or she would not wander the earth looking
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