![]() She says she is thick but her friends argue that she’s “muscular” and for some reason this hurts worse than just admitting that she jiggles when she walks and she’ll never be a dancer. She is instead developing the wide curves of her mother. Is thirteen and her friends are stick-thin ballerinas with valleys between their hipbones. ![]() At night she dreams she is swelling like the ocean over seabeds. She watches a cartoon and sees that everyone who is annoying is drawn with a big wide body, all sweaty and panting. Is eleven and she is picked second-to-last in gym class. She wants a second cookie but her aunt says “you’ll get huge if you keep eating.” She wants a dress and the woman in the changing room says “she’ll probably need a large in that.” She wants to have dessert and her waiter says “After all that dinner you just had? You must be really hungry!” and her parents laugh. Is eight years old, she’s got pink cheeks that her grandmother calls chubby. ![]()
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