Eat…! Or Die in the Next Ten Seconds…
How do you think it feels to be condemned to wear oversize putty-coloured pants with puffy pockets when you’re 17?
5 min readApr 17, 2016
The age when you’re supposed to be gorgeous, sexy, irresistible.
How do you think it feels to be passed over at the teenage dances because you’re heavy and spotty? When you don’t know any better than to put your thick luscious hair in a constraining pony tail when it could be swinging loose down your back? When the only guy who wants to dance with you is the one that all the other girls turned down because he’s drunk?
How do you think it feels to have thunder thighs (I didn’t know that expression then) and to believe that your body is repulsive? Thick, white and pasty.