Curvy Girls Can't Date Quarterbacks (The Curvy Girls Club, #1)

by Kelsie Stelting

Everyone acted like if you were fat, all your medical problems were fat. They never wanted to look beyond the extra layer of tissue to see what was really going on.

down. I was tired of people acting like fat girls deserved less just because of a number on the scale.

cover up. Turn around. Hide. Don’t expose anyone to your body in case it made them uncomfortable. Never mind how that secrecy made you feel like your body was something to be ashamed of. According to our society, your body wasn’t for you. It was for you to show everyone else.

I was so tired of this. Of the rhetoric that said fat girls couldn’t be on magazine covers because you were idolizing unhealthiness. What about crash diets and obsession with looks? Wasn’t that just as unhealthy? People used drugs and slept around and were on the covers of magazines, but they didn’t catch half the flack plus-sized girls would just because of their size.

There was always a giant hubbub before the homecoming game, which the teachers tried to act like was less important than academics. If that were true, Kai Rush and Pixie Adler would be gods among the seniors with his skills on the violin and her insanely high grade point averages. Instead, we worshipped the girls in tight skirts and the guys in tight pants.

“Sometimes we lived so cautiously, I thought we might not have lived at all.”

Years of diet restrictions and weigh-ins left me feeling more like a barn animal than a girl who could be desired in any real way.

He saw me. He saw my heart, my soul, my needs, and every part of me that matched so perfectly with every part of him.