Fat Obsessed Culture

Wendy Shanker, the author of "The Fat Girl's Guide to Life," is not fat. She shares the life of a once a fat girl who become comfortable with who she is. How the culture expecting a beautiful girl being as thin as a stick had led her journey to find herself being herself, the way she is. Nothing would make Wendy as thin as size four, since she has big bone for the start. Distressed with her surroundings, and the expectations of society in her time, Wendy went through so many diet programs, excessive exercises, and even a "retreat" where she pays to be thin. Although I didn't really enjoy the way she critized the "thin like stick people". If Wendy only knew, they are too, find it's hard to find clothes in their size! The story ending has a fairy tale nature, happily ever after, when Wendy found her character the way she wanted to be. Sometimes the barrier to become ourselves is to listen to every voice around us but to ignore our own voice. Finding ourselves is to listen to ourselves, not everyone around us. So, be happy with who you are..(this message is for me too.) Stay healthy, but don't follow the flow of trying to be someone else.