Comments on: History of a “Fat Girl”

By: Nazira

Nazira — Tue, 26 May 2009 00:37:06 +0000

Yeah its kind of sad how we think we are so fat and look back and realize we weren’t (btw in those pictures even the ‘dreaded’ 8th grade ones you look so tiny)
But I guess thats just how we judge ourselves. Oh well I say lets battle our insecurities and shout to the world “Yes I have a Rack of Doom and I love it- and I know you love it too!” :)

By: damn elephants and their bizarre, unnatural heft! « vorare

damn elephants and their bizarre, unnatural heft! « vorare — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:15:56 +0000

[...] I think this gets under my skin so much because when I was Lauren’s age — and definitely a few years before that — I was always the “curviest, heaviest” girl among my friends, but I didn’t [...]

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:15:57 +0000

Yeah – I wasn’t fat in high school or college, either, although my *&**>:@# grandfather paid me to lose weight when I was 10. And my mother practically forced me to go on the Scarsdale Diet with her when I was a senior (because she was a hefty 14 and I was a gigantic size 12). Oh – and I hate that I identify myself as a size. I really started gaining weight when all the supermodels started saying “Oh, I eat tons of pasta” and the low-fat diets were popular. All they did was make me hungry all the time and give me migraines. Thanks for sharing your pictures. You are (and were) a hottie (even though your hairstyle has improved a bit since you were a kid).

By: Always Been Fat « Ottermatic

Always Been Fat « Ottermatic — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:57:40 +0000

[...] lot of folks around the Fatosphere followed up with their own posts on the subject after Kate posted her entry about seeing her kid self through her adult eyes. I refrained because of the shortage of childhood photos and a fear of losing my anonymity (such as [...]

By: bluegirl

bluegirl — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:19:37 +0000

thank you, thank you, thank you, for talking about stretchmarks. i struggle every day with accepting my body with its roadmap of silver lines (i’ve got them everywhere, just about) even more than i struggle with my weight. i know the stretchmarks are likely just as hereditary as the weight, but for some reason i am so ashamed of them.
i’m currently trying to lose weight for my health, because my very dear and excellent mother passed away from breast cancer and my excess fat is increasing the likelihood that i will get bc*, but i see that even as my body changes shape those marks stay with me. the word i most often use when talking about my body? “ruined.”

(* or so the most recent studies say. basically i’m scared shitless that i may have already lived half my life, as my mother and grandmother had by this age, and i’m doing just about everything i can to change that. bc sucks.)

By: kateharding

kateharding — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:05:43 +0000

I’m still not clear on which one is you. ?!?!

The one on the left. Smartass.

By: radparker

radparker — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:02:52 +0000

I’m still not clear on which one is you. ?!?!

By: ShannonCC

ShannonCC — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:53:58 +0000

I *was* fat but still . . . I look back at pictures and can’t believe I felt I was so ugly because I was what, 10 or maybe 20 lbs “overweight” at the time. I was 5’5″ and 145 lbs in High School and thought I was “fat and ugly”. And now here I am 20 years older and what, 70 lbs heavier, and now I like what I see in the mirror. Weird. Good, but weird ;)

Puberty sucked. School sucked. The 30′s rock and I’m guessing it will just keep getting better and better :)

Glasses – let’s not speak of that . . . . LOL!

By: ladyjaye

ladyjaye — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:47:41 +0000

Heh, add me in among those who thought they were sooooooo huge as teens. In reality, I was a bit chubby, definitely not skinny, but I wasn’t nearly as fat as I thought. Plus, I was pretty fit as I played a lot of sports — softball, street hockey, ice hockey, biking, running around with friends. All those sports didn’t get me skinny, but I could hold my own with others.

My problem, aside from looking younger than my age even then (I have a video where I’m 17 and look about 13), was that I had poor fashion sense and zero self-confidence. Sometimes I wish I could time-travel 15 years back in time and bitch-slap a makeover to myself (both in terms of fashion and of attitude — you see, I was also a total nerd and an intellectual snob on top of being a tomboy).

By: Chiara

Chiara — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:32:33 +0000

I have no real idea of what my body was like when I was in middle and high school–I was a skinny kid but gained a lot of weight very quickly when I hit puberty (and also started eating away from home more often–rebelling against my mom’s hippie health-food-store ways, my favorite things on earth were processed white bread and Soft Batch cookies, ugh). I wore everything about eight sizes too big, even correcting for the fashions of the early 90s and did everything I could to hide my body, including refusing to have pictures taken of me. It’s only a few years ago that I cut off the wall of hair and started wearing awesome, adorable, more form-fitting clothes, and, not coincidentally I’m sure, started being a total camera hog.

I still have no idea whether I’m fat though.