“The size of a body was never just the size of a body. Thinness was a door that opened to a world of happy marriages, perfect children, enviable careers, meteoric ascents. It was a divine healing fantasy: all the wrongs in their lives would be righted by endless self-flagellation, and the mantra of t…”— Your Fat Friend, medium.comTagged: How To Think, Psychology, Women, Body Mind Weight
“That meeting is where I first learned magical thinking. Through sheer force of will, these women intended to break their bodies like wild horses, starve them into submission, and, in so doing, attain the dazzling lives of thin women. They stayed hungry, forever famished, but were never quite thin en…”— Your Fat Friend, medium.comTagged: How To Think, Body Mind Weight, Philosophy, Emotion of the Body
“The size of a body was never just the size of a body. Thinness was a door that opened to a world of happy marriages, perfect children, enviable careers, meteoric ascents.”— Your Fat Friend, medium.comTagged: Magical thinking, Bodies