I agree. My mom is about the same age as present-day Rebecca and in 1998, she and all the other 40-something moms I knew had mom jeans and modified Princess Di haircuts. Rebecca did ALL of her aging from 1998 to 2018? No way.

It’s good you have someone in your corner and you’re so self-aware. A lot of EDs start with rapid unintended weight loss. I lost a bunch of weight during a breakup/graduating college/starting law school chain of stress. Before I knew it I wasn’t driving my own brain anymore and was clinically anorexic. Like you, the…

The standout one for me - which I read in TWO teen mags - was the girl who couldn’t get her tampon out and called her mom for help, only to find out she called her boyfriend’s mom instead. It’s a real 90s relic of a story what with the landlines and lack of google, but it had 9-year-old me imagining my vag was just…

“The black church” is a pretty common term for Protestant churches with all- or mostly-Black congregations. AME churches, for instance.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_church; http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/09/12/Sorett.church.entertainment/; etc.

I had to scroll up to star this before I was even done. Excellent job telling it. I speak Spanish, so as soon as they said the name I’m like, it’s either venga or “ven aca” (also = come here) but WHY.

I don’t ... technically believe in that kind of thing either, but my dear sister-in-law died by suicide around this past Christmas. The call came around 9 pm and I spent the next several hours weeping and awake, as you do. At this point we thought it was accidental because she had a number of prescriptions, and the…