Thank you and everyone for your kind responses. It really helps to know how many other struggle with this! Sending lots of hugs and love to you all.

Yeah, we don’t have a ton of junk food in the house. We don’t keep soda in the house, mainly because neither my husband nor I like it all that much.. What I meant by what I said is that I don’t restrict his food - if he wants a snack, I let him have a snack. I don’t force him to eat his veggies if he doesn’t want…

This article resonates so much. My mom put me on Weight Watchers when I was nine, after many years of restricting what I could eat. The thing is, when I look back at childhood pictures, I was not fat. I wasn’t sinewy or lithe, but I was not fat. I was athletic. I played elite soccer from a very young age. I don’t…

Fun fact: he and Bryan Adams have the same birthday.

I know it’s at SXSW, so I am hoping that maybe that’s the reason. But it’s probably not. Everyone needs to see this.

I came to X-Ray Spex as a teen punk myself in the mid 80s, and Germfree Adolescents has been my favorite early punk album for a long time. Even back then, she was being whitewashed.

Staring in Poly Styrene.

Mine wasn’t quite as gross, or maybe it was actually even more gross? I don’t know.

Say what you want about Letterman (and I know he’s problematic), but when Limbaugh was a guest on his show right after Clinton was elected, he was bashing both Chelsea and Hillary’s looks. Letterman said, bitingly, “and you can say that because you’re so devastatingly handsome yourself.” It was a great TV moment.

I had a “Dogs Against Romney” bumper sticker on my car during the 2012 election.

There were also the neo-hippies and the hardcore punk kids.

I do find it interesting that the article’s author completely left out that she was a Jewish refugee from the Nazis.

Not sure if you’ve seen this gem from Mr. Gottfried.

The Charlie Rose is bad, sure, but are we just going to ignore the fact that they named their daughter after the insurance capitol of the US?

Great. Now I’ll have “Ema, Aba, BAMBA” playing over and over in my head all day. 

It’s the gift that kept on giving!

That’s adorable. I bet your dad loved those gifts.

When my dad turned 40, my parents’ group of friends decided to throw him a gag gift party. I was 12 at the time (this was 1983), so I thought I was being *hilarious* by giving him an old sock and a stapler. Friends, I did not realize what gag gifts actually were (thankfully, as that would have been really awkward).

Don’t feel bad. I guarantee you her apartment in New York costs as much as, if not more, than my four-bedroom house in a large Midwestern city.. 

Because they have a lot of influence over their fans? Back when the polio vaccine was rolled out, many refused to take it until they saw Elvis get the vaccine publicly.