![]() ![]() Kiri: How did you learn to love your body? So when I got teased, what inevitably fell on my ears? “You’re fat and ugly!” Because being thin was everything, my brain latched onto “you’re fat." I bought into it, completely. Being seen as fat became the single greatest fear of the American female. Instead, what I think happened, is that at some point children-and even adults-figured out that the single biggest insult you could fling at a female is to call her “fat.”Īt some point we, as a society, came to understand that the best way to attack a woman’s confidence is to suggest that her body is unacceptably large. But when I look back at pictures of me, I can see that clearly I wasn’t fat. Kids at school teased me and called me “fat.” My own little brother called me fat. I thought I was overweight when I was 12. I let my doctor weigh me during my annual physical, and I usually weigh in around 280 pounds. Kim: I don’t have a scale at home, so I don’t know how much I weigh. Kiri: How much do you weigh now? What age were you when you realized you were overweight? ![]()
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