And now, I am choosing to no longer be silent. I have been silent about my story in a world where people assume they know the why of my body, or any fat body.
I have tried to move on from the trauma that compelled me to create this body. I have tried to love or at least tolerate this body in a world that displays nothing but contempt for it. I have tried to make peace with this body.
“I have been living in this unruly body for more than twenty years.