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Swimsuit Bravery?

May 21, 2013

Last week, I casually mentioned I needed to go bathing suit shopping and thousands of people (or maybe just my six remaining friends) told me how “brave” I was. I started worrying about why bravery was required to go bathing suit shopping, and then I remembered that my ass looks like it lives down the [...]

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Apple Girl

May 17, 2013

Apple. I know it’s kind of a hard name to hear, I mean, have you looked at an apple lately?  It’s not the sexiest fruit in the produce aisle, but you’re not an apple—you’re an apple shape, and that’s something you can make work (“werk” even).  For starters, you’ve got a great rack and some [...]

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Her Little Sister

May 9, 2013

“You must be Angie’s little sister.” For the past 35 years, that phrase has followed me wherever I go. From Kindergarten to middle school band, from my first internship to Twitter, I have dodged and ducked, trying to escape being known as anything other than just me. I resented any inference – implied or stated [...]

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What the Fork?

April 29, 2013

Occasionally, I like to take a break from regular blogging and do some product reviews.  And by product reviews, I mean eviscerate the inventors of anything in the Skymall Magazine and mock those who buy their products mercilessly. There is simply so much shit out there that we just don’t need, and we keep coming up [...]

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Plump, Heavyset, Chubby…The “Fat” Problem

April 25, 2013

I am 26 years old. Since I can remember I have had self-esteem issues. I don’t want to say that I’ve always struggled with my weight, because I honestly never considered myself fat, just self-conscious in tight clothes. Until recently. Clients at my work commented that I was pregnant…a stranger in the Coach outlet store [...]

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You Be The Judge

April 23, 2013

I have 42 dresses clawing for space in my closet these days (coincidentally, that’s one for every year of my life). People have made assumptions about what that means, but the simple truth is that I own 42 dresses because that’s how many I’ve found that fit me. Just like those girls (and by those [...]

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This Is Not A Code For “Fat.”

March 13, 2013

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I Feel

February 18, 2013

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I Had An Epiphany

January 28, 2013

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Be Heard By Your Own Heart

January 25, 2013

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