Image Source: Grayson Gilcrease
I have always been fat. The only time I've ever been a size zero was during the fourth grade. While my friends were shopping the latest trends at Limited Too, I was trying to find something from the women's section that wouldn't make me look like a 30-year-old trapped in a 10-year-old's body. It didn't take long for me to figure out that it was a lot easier to be the funny fat girl than it was to be the one simply trying to live her life. After all, it hurts a lot less when you're the butt of your own joke. Did I come to this realization by myself as an extremely wise middle schooler? If you guessed no, you'd be correct. I took my cues from how my favorite movies and TV shows treated their fat characters because that was the easiest way to...
I have always been fat. The only time I've ever been a size zero was during the fourth grade. While my friends were shopping the latest trends at Limited Too, I was trying to find something from the women's section that wouldn't make me look like a 30-year-old trapped in a 10-year-old's body. It didn't take long for me to figure out that it was a lot easier to be the funny fat girl than it was to be the one simply trying to live her life. After all, it hurts a lot less when you're the butt of your own joke. Did I come to this realization by myself as an extremely wise middle schooler? If you guessed no, you'd be correct. I took my cues from how my favorite movies and TV shows treated their fat characters because that was the easiest way to...
- 5/14/2021
- by Grayson Gilcrease
- Popsugar.com
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