I Won’t Change My Fat Body For You

I’m worth looking at, worth touching, worth loving.

Rachael Hope
Fattitude
Published in
7 min readApr 24, 2019

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Image by photosforyou from Pixabay

I’ve gotten used to being the fattest girl in the room. I am the fattest one in my group of girlfriends, in my immediate family, in my office at work.

Some days I look in the mirror, and I‘m perplexed. I see a woman taking up what seems like a minute amount of space in comparison to the world…

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Rachael Hope
Fattitude

Polyamorous, loud laughing unapologetic feminist, rad fatty, and epic sweet tooth.