WHEN THE FAT GIRL GETS SKINNY: The Short Film
Written by Blythe Baird directed by Abby Thompson. 2017 The year of skinny pop and sugarfree jello cups, we guzzled vitamin water and vodka. Toasting to high school and survival, complimenting each others thigh gaps. Trying diets we found on the internet: menthol cigarettes, eating in front of a mirror, donating blood. Replacing meals with other practical hobbies like making flower crowns, or fainting. Wondering why I hadn t had my period in months, or why breakfast tastes like giving up. Or how many more productive ways I could ve spent my time today besides googling the calories in the glue of a U. S envelope. Watching Americas Next Topmodel like the gospel, hunching naked over a bathroom scale shrine, crying into an empty bowl of cocoa puffs because I only feel pretty when I m hungry. If you are not recovering, you are dying. By the time I was sixteen, I had already experienced being clinically overweight, underweig
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