This Is Us

Weight Loss Surgery and the Unbearable Thinness of Being

I learned the quiet heartbreak of losing someone who truly understood what it meant to live in a body like mine

Your Fat Friend
Human Parts
Published in
5 min readMay 5, 2020

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An eerie image of the silhouette of a person seen through frosted glass.
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I was 18 the first time I met a fat sister in arms. It was my first semester of college, and we immediately gravitated toward one another…

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Your Fat Friend
Human Parts

Your Fat Friend writes about the social realities of living as a very fat person. www.yourfatfriend.com