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I was round-faced, with a posterior notable enough that a girl who hated me went around with my prom photo ridiculing the size of it. (We didn’t even go to the same school.)
???
There would be books and columns with names like “Hungry Bitch” and “Skinny Shrew” telling me how to replace things I wanted to eat with things I did not in order to be dissatisfied and thin.
really
I have developed a somewhat unfortunate habit. If my husband, Rand, is driving and we happen upon a Red Lobster, I will scream, with the urgency of someone who has been stabbed with something very sharp, for him to stop. “Absolutely not,” he will reply cheerfully.
i hope this is hyperbole
He adores me so completely that at least three of my in-laws have accused me of sexual witchcraft.
???
In Bridget Jones’s Diary, the titular character’s weight is a constant focal point (and Renée Zellweger’s weight gain for the film was the subject of countless magazine articles). At the time of filming, she was five feet four inches and 140 pounds—five pounds heavier and an inch taller than my own five-foot-three frame.
why does she need to share this information about herself in a piece about fatphobia and body size?
I’d never met someone more inept in the kitchen, and I say that with a grudging respect. For her age and demographic, she was an outlier. She used a serrated knife to cut tomatoes, sawing through them as if they’d wronged her. She
This not a good example of ineptitude, they literally sell specialized serrated tomato knives.
Duncan Hines (who was a real person before he was a cake mix) was an exuberant fan. So it’s hard to imagine that those melted bits of chocolate were anything but intentional. Perhaps it’s that we refuse to attribute genius to women, even when it is so clearly deserved. Or perhaps it’s that we find comfort in the idea that even our mistakes might yield something good. Several years after she first created her cookie, Wakefield would publish the recipe in a local Boston newspaper, and it would be featured on a radio show hosted by Betty Crocker (again, the person, not the cake mix).
Is this a joke? Betty Crocker (unlike Duncan Hines) was never a real person
By the time Rand and I left for Italy in October 2021, our first trip to Europe in two long, uncertain years, it felt as if the fog of the pandemic was starting to lift.
Two years? March 2020-October 2021?
