When Kids Talk About Fat Bodies
The history of hurt around my body wasn’t authored by children, but by adults
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6 min readJun 10, 2019
My brother called 12 years ago. His wife was, he told me, pregnant. For the first time, I was going to be an aunt.
I was excited, if nervous, about how it would shift my relationship with my brother. He had always been so warm and loving with children that…