Hmmm. I all kinds of love that Casey Legler's looks. I so often wish I was tall / big enough to pull off menswear regularly.

Ugh. I hear you. I think the thing I finally came to understand was that my father, though he may try, can never see me as anything but an extension of himself. He is therefore much MORE critical of me than the rest of the world, and when I get annoyed, I try to remember that he is probably speaking to himself even…

Thank you! I'm really fine. Everyone's got their issues.

Good on you. Every kid comes to an acute awareness of how they look and 'measure up' in attractiveness, weight & intelligence compared to others in their own time, and really far sooner than seems fair. I think a lot of parents, and grandparents etc., don't realize how loud and far their voices travel when criticism…

This woman sounds exactly like my father was when I was seven. He remained that way until I was hospitalized as an 80lb anorexic when I was sixteen. He's never mentioned my weight since, but comments negatively on every other overweight person in the entire world.