I Felt Like I was Fat for the First Time in My Life, and I Hated It

It was easy to be “body-positive” when I felt like I was, by all accounts, thin.

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My aunt was, at her heaviest, well over 400 pounds.

She didn’t get there quickly. She got there over years. Every year ending with her a little heavier than when it’d started.