I don't have tv so TALK PEOPLE

“Why do I like horror so much? Well, because it serves as inspiration for my sexin’ of course. No one can bite off a penis like me!”

Once in high school we were eating dinner and I got up to get seconds. My grandma said “I hope your boyfriend like chubbies.”

Yes! heaven forfend they also find out I can love trashy reality television AND npr.

Oooh! I’ve gotten the reverse of this. “You don’t seem like a girl that would be into makeup.” Like, because I’ve read classic literature and have two degrees, I apparently can’t drool over new releases of Too Faced or put effort into eyeshadow with the same fervor as writing.

During a discussion about Harry Potter “You just don’t seem like the kind of girl who...reads.”

Well I appreciate it.

My mom, picking me up from college one year: Have you gained weight, or is it just your new haircut?

...that wasn’t on the set of Mad Men or something

I was in eighth grade and mister king of junior high says to me “I know who you are you’re like the most popular girl of all the like unpopular people.”

“But I’m offering you such a great salary... for a girl.”

I think I mentioned this earlier this week, but “Too bad you’re not taller ”

“You look very clean today.”

I really wish there was some kind of test or something that could sort “genuinely wants to help people with emotional issues” from “desperately need to project my own perceived shortcomings onto random people who thought they were seeking help for their own lives, not being a mirror for my crap.”

Right after I finally broke free of my father (who was sexually, physically, and emotionally abusing me) and was seeing a therapist courtesy of Victim Witness, she started telling me I was a sociopath.

You have no idea how many hours of future mental anguish you have saved me. Seriously. Also, my god is she pretty.

Yes. And also models sometimes have to change clothes in public for reasons of speed — as embarrassing as it is to strip down to a nude g-string on a beach while some stylist's assistant holds up a towel, it would be even worse to have to get completely naked.

Sample swimsuits that may get reworn by multiple models without laundering.

Just FYI on the before pictures - they are RAW image files (large files meant to preserve the maximum amount of visual information possible) which always look greyish and dull before processing. The photographer deliberately lights and shoots in a way that gives the post processor the maximum possible creative leeway…

The folds under her arms and on her torso on the pictures where her body is contorted were reassuring for me. I've been trying to lose weight and get in shape, so it's kind of a bummer to see/feel folds when you move around (especially on the front of your armpit, ugh). I'd never seen that on someone with, as Mean…