One to Watch

by Kate Stayman-London

It is so important to know who you are before you do this show. Everybody will try to tell you about yourself. It is so easy to fall victim to everybody else's definition of what you should be. —RACHEL LINDSAY

“The way you dress, the way you hang your head? I think perhaps you are hiding,” she said quietly. “But in this cape?” Bea looked up to meet her eye. “In this cape, what?” Jeanne’s lips curled at the corners, the barest hint of a grin. “You will be someone who everyone must see.”

“You don’t have a boyfriend?” “And spend my fifteen seconds of free time every week handling some man’s emotions because he’s not capable of dealing with them himself? Um, no.”

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people would still be terrible to her on the Internet, because a lot of people find the existence of a fat woman something to get worked up about.

To have been that hurt, to feel that afraid, and to know that the only way you can be really, fully happy is to risk going through it all again? It’s a terrifying choice to make. But if you want to let someone be that close to you, it’s the only way.”

“Bean, everyone in this family knows how much love you have inside you. We’re together because of you. Your good heart was the key that unlocked our whole lives.”

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“It’s like, all of a sudden, I’m confronted with what I’ve been missing. Like, do other people actually live this way? They just fall in love, and they tell each other, and they never have to be ashamed, or embarrassed, or certain the other person doesn’t feel the same? And then—if you’re in love with me, and if I could really fall in love with you, does that mean I have to learn how to need you? To depend on you? What happens when you disappear on me like everyone else always has?”

Everyone wanted so many things from her—to believe in herself and see her own true beauty, but not to be conceited, to know her place. Be more than your looks, but never speak out of turn. Don’t be defined by love, but remember, you’re nothing without it. Be a princess. Find your prince. You don’t need a man to complete you. Stand on your own two feet.

But I was wrong—I don’t need a man to look past my size. I need someone who’ll see me and love me exactly as I am. For all its flaws, this show made me believe that that’s possible.”