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.

That was what you were trained to do as a plus-size girl—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.

Everyone’s different. That doesn’t mean less.”

Of the rhetoric that said fat girls couldn’t be on magazine covers because you were idolizing unhealthiness.

I swallowed. Gulped. Like, out loud.

“Some moments are too perfect for photos. They have to be lived.”

If you want someone perfect to be your daughter, find her. Your actual, fat, imperfect, cupcake-covered, mistake-making daughter will be right here, ignoring the fact that you’re her mother.”