Gastric Band Tragedy Mum Feared Bullies

[Fat Man]

Sometimes the result of bullying can lead to a tragic death.

In our schools, it's not only kids who are harmed emotionally and physically by bullies, but sometimes the bullying, or even just the fear of bullying can also lead to the tragic death of a parent.

Case in point . . .

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090810/tuk ... dbed5.html

Gastric Band Tragedy Mum Feared Bullies



An overweight mother who died after having a gastric band fitted underwent the operation because she feared her daughter would be bullied at school, it has emerged.



Kerry Greaves, from Tang Hall, York, opted for the procedure following concerns that her three-year-old daughter Melissa would be teased about her size. However, the 30-year-old's stomach failed to heal after surgery and despite repeated operations to save her, she died on July 22.

Her mother Anne said: "Kerry never thought there would be any problems with the surgery and neither did we. "She did it for her daughter. She didn't want her to be picked on at school. She didn't want things said to her like 'your mum's fat' and stuff like that."

"She had mates who had had the operation and they were fine. She thought if they are fine I will be fine." Gastric band surgery involves fitting an adjustable band around the upper section of the stomach in order to accelerate weight loss. The process can lead to complications, including infections, and in rare cases, leakage into the stomach.

Mrs Greaves urged people to think twice about undergoing the procedure in light of her daughter's shock death. "There is a 50/50 risk, but you don't expect anything like this to happen," she said. "It is just not worth it." Around 150 mourners attended Ms Greaves' funeral last Friday, and friends and family have also been paying tribute online.

On Gonetoosoon.org, friend Julie said: "Your family were so blessed to of had you in their lives, and especially your princess Melissa who will grow up with wonderful memories of a wonderful mum." Another friend wrote: "My last words to u on facebook were u will b fine. told u 2 of my friends ad same op n they done well. feel awful yours went wrong. u ad so much to live 4. a beautiful girl

Well, as for me, Yeah, I'm obese at 5 feet 6 inches and almost 400 pounds, but even if I weighed 800 pounds or more, I still would NEVER undergo any such risky surgical procedure. I'm scared to death of it!

Yes, I understand that the Gastric Lap Band is much safer than the traditional Gastric Bypass surgery, and also, that the Lap Band is reversible whereas the Gastric Bypass in not, but there is always risk involved in any kind of bariatric surgery.

Even if I were an obese parent, I still would not have the operation done, even if it meant that my losing weight would help to end the bullying of my kids in school.

Do I sound selfish?

NO! For the simple reason, that even if I weren't a fat parent, the bullies would just simply find another reason to harass my kids. If it isn't having a fat parent, it would be some other reason. Also, I might die from the surgery if something goes wrong, so it's better for kids to have a fat parent than no parent at all.

My losing weight, and getting down to a more "socially acceptable" weight is not going to stem the tide of the bullying of my kids in school because bullies will just invent another reason.

When I was a kid in school, being the typical nerd or geek, I didn't care for sports, I preferred science and art instead, and I was often called a sissy and a fagot because I didn't like sports. I was even told that if I wanted the other kids to stop bullying me around, then I should put away my "sissy" books on astronomy, my telescope, my art stuff, and the rest of my "sissy" stuff, and take up sports instead.

But I was lousy at sports, and due to a knee injury at the age of four from a car accident. I walked with a limp and I could not run, so even when I did attempt to participate is sports, I was still bullied around in school just simply because I was so lousy at sports.

Bullies can always find some reason, if it's not from being fat, or not from disliking sports, than it is because of your ethnic or racial background, or because of the style clothes you like to wear, or some stupid reason.

Yes, I guess that I do have to grudgingly admit that both Polite24 and SportsGuy92 are correct when the claim that sports is not the only cause of bullying in our schools.

While we are bombarded by the sports media on TV, we are also being constantly bombarded by the entertainment media, the fashion industry, and the commercials on TV for every new weight loss gimmick that comes along. Every week that advertise a new weight loss product, and I just have to ask, if last weeks product was so terrific, then why do they have to come out with a new gimmick every week.

The media dictates what is acceptable, how we should appear, and so, many young teenage girls strive to lose enough weight to get down to wearing a size zero, and recently they have come out with fashionable clothing in a size -2, that's right! A negative or minus 2!

I believe that eating disorders , such as anorexia or bulimia among teens is the result of brainwashing by the media. We are constantly being told by the media that women must look like broomsticks and any guy, like me for example, who happens to like plump women, we are looked upon as being some kind of perverts! So, we are all subject to media bullying, the entertainment media, the fashion media, the advertising media, and the sports media.

So, thanks to all the brainwashing by the media, guys like me who like nice plump women, we are viewed as some kind of perverts!

But I don't care what anybody else might think, this is my idea of the perfect women!



It is my most sincere hope that all the Bariatric Butchers out there will keep their bloody hands off of this sweet babe!

I think she's hot! This is the way I like 'em!!!

Any questions???

The truth is, and lets be honest here, because I'm going to tell it like it is!

The primary reason so many people want to lose weight, is NOT for health reasons, but because they are actually more worried about their appearance than they are about their health, else they would not resort to often questionable or dangerous tactics to get down to a "socially acceptable" weight. Therefore, health is not the primary motivation, but rather, it is appearance.

Many people are literally dieing to be thin!!!

I say, if you're going to risk your life undergoing a dangerous surgical procedure, or using drugs with harmful side effects, then you're better off just staying fat, because there are some things that are far more dangerous than obesity.

As for me, I'm un-apologetically FAT!



I don't apologize for my size.

And anybody who doesn't like it, can lump it, take it on down the road and dump it!

Another words, they can kiss my fat ass!

As Popeye would always say . . . . .



. . . . . I YAM WHAT I YAM, AND THAT'S ALL THAT I YAM!!!

[Earl]

When I was a kid in school, being the typical nerd or geek, I didn't care for sports, I preferred science and art instead, and I was often called a sissy and a fagot because I didn't like sports. I was even told that if I wanted the other kids to stop bullying me around, then I should put away my "sissy" books on astronomy, my telescope, my art stuff, and the rest of my "sissy" stuff, and take up sports instead.

But I was lousy at sports, and due to a knee injury at the age of four from a car accident. I walked with a limp and I could not run, so even when I did attempt to participate is sports, I was still bullied around in school just simply because I was so lousy at sports.

I guess Albert Einstein would have been categorized as a "sissy" if he had been born in this country.

Why was this physically handicapped guy forced to take P.E.? Didn't anyone have any common sense? I guess not. At least not in the P.E. establishment. Would a mentally retarded student have been forced to take calculus? This was an example of social insanity.

So, thanks to all the brainwashing by the media, guy like me who like nice plump women, we are viewed as some kind of perverts!

A certain heterosexual attraction is considered to be perverted. Amazing, isn't it?

The primary reason so many people want to lose weight, is NOT for health reasons, but because they are actually more worried about their appearance than they are about their health, else they would not resort to often questionable or dangerous tactics to get down to a "socially acceptable" weight. Therefore, health is not the primary motivation, but rather, it is appearance.

Many people are literally dieing to be thin!!!

Speaking as someone who is concerned about physical fitness, I'm afraid that you're right about this. I take that back. You are right about this.

Excellent post.

[Fat Man]

Ya know! It just keeps on gettin' better and better all the time!

We fat people are constantly being dehumanized by the media.

Another prime example:

http://www.charlottecooper.net/docs/fat ... atties.htm

Fat

I am fat. I write and think about what it is to be fat. I wrote a book about fat. I am doing a Ph.D about fat. Fat is a big part of my life.

I think fat people are as valid as anybody. I think diet and weight loss culture is destructive and I think the rhetoric surrounding the alleged global obesity epidemic stinks. I want to help make a world where people live freely and happily in their bodies - at every size. I think that the fat liberation movement is incredible, profound and life-altering and I am proud to stand alongside those who are part of it.

Charlotte Cooper

Headless Fatties

Edited to add: I'm pretty sure that I am the originator
of the term "Headless Fatty" thanks to this essay. Please
get in touch if you know otherwise.

I started to notice the Headless Fatty phenomenon a couple of years ago, when the current wave of the War on Obesity (also known in the press as the Global Obesity Epidemic, the Obesity Crisis, etc.) began to get coverage. Every hand-wringing article about the financial cost of obesity, and every speechifying press release about the ticking time bomb of obesity seemed to be accompanied by a photograph of a fat person, seemingly photographed unawares, with their head neatly cropped out of the picture.

Since then, the Headless Fatty has become a staple of news journalism. It's quite bizarre, fat people are in the news all the time, almost constantly; "Obesity" returns more than twice as many Google News hits as "Madonna." But we are presented as objects, as symbols, as a collective problem, as something to be talked about. Unless we play the game and parrot oppressive, self-hating, medicalised views about fat, fat people's own voices, feelings, thoughts and opinions about what it is to be fat are entirely absent from the discourse. Because of this, we are currently unable to capitalize on the allure a fat body holds to viewers and readers, and this will probably continue as long as we are disenfranchised beings.



As Headless Fatties, the body becomes symbolic: we are there but we have no voice, not even a mouth in a head, no brain, no thoughts or opinions. Instead we are reduced and dehumanized as symbols of cultural fear: the body, the belly, the arse, food. There's a symbolism, too, in the way that the people in these photographs have been beheaded. It's as though we have been punished for existing, our right to speak has been removed by a prurient gaze, our headless images accompany articles that assume a world without people like us would be a better world altogether.



Yet these are real people who look as though they've been photographed without their knowledge, consent, or payment of any kind, for commercial photographs that are then marketed and sold by photographers and agencies. I wonder what it must feel like to open the paper one morning, or click onto a news site, and see a headless version of yourself there, against a headline decrying people who look like you. I imagine that it would be hard for a person with high self-esteem to take, let alone some random fatty, who's grown up with the depressingly familiar round of self-hatred, body-disgust and shame.



Headless Fatties are a version of fat people, a never-ending parade of us, taken from us and then sold back to us, hatefully and with ignorance. They reek of a surveillance culture with which fat people â?? whose bodies are policed by glares, and disapproving looks â?? are all too familiar. It really is true that you could be anywhere, walking down the street, on your way back from the shops, waiting for a bus, down at the gym, at the canteen, looking gorgeous or looking crappy, and an image of your disgustingness could be produced and reproduced outside of your control, perhaps without you ever knowing it. And you could be anyone: a man, a woman, a kid â?? a kid! â?? rich, poor and all places in between. There are photographers waiting for people like me, lurking, looking for the money shot: a cheaply-dressed, underclass fat woman tucking into some fast food on the street. I would suggest that fat people's fear of fulfilling a stereotype might make this shot fairly elusive, it's quite astonishing how food is largely absent from these images, and I draw the viewer's attention to the image of the woman in a stripy top, who has made the mistake of standing close to a billboard of a sandwich, she's not even eating, she is carrying a shopping bag from Evans, the fat lady clothes shop in the UK, yet the implication of what she does when she gets home is all too clear.



I found these images online by Googling the following words: obese, obesity, obesity epidemic, obese man, obese woman, obese child, overweight, fat. Many of the images come from one of the world's biggest photo agencies, which supplies businesses and media with images. I've included a couple of images in this list of people who haven't been decapitated, although they remain faceless with the back of their heads to the camera. One memorable photograph has a series of fat women with their eyes blacked out, as though they are criminals. Perhaps to some people they are criminals.

If any of these photographs are of you, or of people you know, and were taken without your consent, I think it might be a good idea to get some legal advice. If I ever turn up in one of these photographs, I would like every picture editor on the planet to know that I will sue the arse off them for it. It might be a good idea to let picture agencies know that these images are dehumanizing, or tell editors what you think about their use of Headless Fatties, maybe suggest that every picture of a headless fatty they publish should be balanced with an article by and about a vocal fat activist.



I see myself in these images, I look like a lot of the people in these photographs, and I'd like to suggest other ways of viewing them: challenge your disgust, see how people are dressed, what they are doing, think about how the picture was taken, what message it was used to convey, how that message relates to the person in the image, who got paid for the picture, and try to imagine who that Headless Fatty might be, try to get a hold of their humanity.

Yeah, I have my own photos posted on various places around the Internet, and these idiots out there think they have a license to grab anybody's photo and misuse it for there own monetary gain, so we fat people are looked upon as faceless and voiceless nonentities. We have become the new "N" word.

This is me!



I'm a person damn it! I have a face and a voice! I have a head and a mind, and I'm going to speak my mind.

On one end of the social spectrum have the "Headless Fatties" and on the other end of the social spectrum, we have the "Talking Heads" on TV who are the ones responsible for cutting our heads off and consigning us to assume the headless, mindless, faceless, and voiceless role as lower class citizens in society.

This is me! All of me! OK?



Do not cut off my head, or blank out my face. I'm not a criminal! I have committed no crimes.

I refuse to go through life being ashamed of myself just because I'm fat.

And I deeply resent how the media likes to depict us fat people as faceless nonentities.

OK, now this is only my own opinion, but I believe that our fat round faces are actually more expressive of our emotions. When I see another fellow fatty crying, seeing the tears flowing down over plump round cheeks, it touches me deeply, and when I see another fat person laughing, I can't help but to also laugh in response. Perhaps the reason why our plump round faces appear to be more expressive of our emotions is probably because a fat face on an adult looks somewhat more infantile whereas a thinner face has more sharp angular features, and therefore appears more adult-like and more mature. But then, that's just my opinion.

Even our great bodies are more expressive of our emotions. When we laugh, our bellies really do quiver like bowls of jelly. I know mine does! When we get up to dance our plump round bodies are a quiver all over. We can really shake our booties!!!

Also, there is medical evidence that we fat people are more sensitive to pain. True, when we go out in cold weather we don't feel the cold as much because we are protected by nice soft warm layers of fat, but we suffer a lot more from the summer heat. We feel pain with greater intensity. We touch something hot and burn our fingers, we feel that more intensely. Our fat may protect us from injuries when we fall, or when someone beats up on us, but still, for us to be struck violently, it hurts more even though the fat protect us. The pain receptors in our skin are more sensitive. Medical test have been done which show that we fat people feel pain with greater intensity. Perhaps when we are hungry, we also feel the hunger with greater intensity. We have a lower tolerance to pain, both physical and emotional. Yet, we are being subject to more pain, by the physical pain from bullying, and the emotional pain inflicted on us by the "Talking Heads" in the media which likes to depict us as faceless nonentities.

They simply refuse to take into account that we fatties are more sensitive to pain, both physical and emotional.

Another case in point:

http://www.innovations-report.com/html/ ... 56016.html

Obese people are more sensitive to pain, suggests study
02.03.2006

Obese people may be more sensitive to pain than people who arenâ??t obese, a new study suggests.

All of the older adults who completed the study had osteoarthritis of the knee, a disease that causes inflammation and extreme pain in the knees.

Participants were given a mild electrical stimulation on their left ankle to measure their pain reflex. The stimulus was given before and after the participants took part in a 45-minute coping skills training session that included a progressive muscle relaxation exercise.

The obese patients showed a greater physical response to the electrical stimulation than did the non-obese people, both before and after the training session. This indicates they had a lower tolerance for the painful stimulation despite reporting, in questionnaires, that they felt no more pain than non-obese people.

â??The relaxation procedure helped both groups cope with pain,â? said Charles Emery, the studyâ??s lead author and a professor of psychology at Ohio State University. â??Additionally, our tests showed both groups had higher physical pain thresholds after the relaxation session. But the obese participants still had a lower threshold for tolerating the pain.â?

Emery and his colleagues presented their findings on March 4 in Denver at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society. The researchers wanted to see if coping skills training, including progressive relaxation techniques would help people with osteoarthritis to better cope with the pain that the disease can cause. Also called degenerative joint disease, osteoarthritis affects more than 20 million people in the United States.

But they were particularly interested in seeing how the obese group responded to pain; according to Emery, a small number of studies have looked at pain sensitivity in obese people, but many of these studies report conflicting results. â??Some studies say that obese people are more tolerant of pain, while other studies say they are less tolerant,â? Emery said.

About a third of the studyâ??s 62 participants were obese. Researchers determined who was obese based on participantsâ?? body mass index (BMI) scores, which relates height to weight. Obese patients in this study had a BMI greater than 30 but less than 35. (Scores higher than 35 are considered morbidly obese.)

The participants underwent two rounds of electrical stimulation â?? once before, and once after a 45-minute training session where they learned different ways of coping with pain, including instruction in progressive muscle relaxation therapy. The electrical stimulation came from an iPod-sized device that delivered a slight electrical shock to a patientâ??s sural nerve, a nerve that extends along the ankle and into the calf. This kind of electrical stimulation causes sensations of tingling and mild pain in the lower leg.

The researchers determined the bodyâ??s response to sural nerve stimulation by measuring the reflex of the lower leg muscles that surround the sural nerve. When the brain senses pain, it sends a message to the body to contract and move the muscles in order to get away from the source of the pain. â??This kind of evaluation is in some ways a more objective way of measuring the bodyâ??s response to pain, as opposed to simply asking someone if they feel pain,â? Emery said.

But the researchers did ask participants how much pain they felt. Participants completed questionnaires about anxiety and pain perception after each round of electrical stimulations. All participants, obese or not, reported that they felt less pain after the relaxation session than they did before.

Yet results of the sural nerve stimulus test showed that the obese participants did not tolerate the painful stimulus as well as the non-obese individuals. â??Our findings show the importance of looking at objective as well as subjective measurements of how the body responds to pain stimuli,â? Emery said.

Emery conducted the study with colleagues from Ohio State, Ohio and Duke universities.

Yeah, I imagine that the "Talking Heads" on TV would probably like to say the we fat people are just great big cry babies!!!

Well, be that as it may, it's still better than having no feelings at all. OK, so maybe we fat people are just great big cry babies, but hey!!! That's better than being an unfeeling sociopath!

The TV Talking heads are just sociopaths who totally lack any kind of human feelings at all.

Hitler was a sociopath!

Now I have a theory about the Talking Heads we see on TV.

The reason why the Talking Heads hate us fat people is because they are small minded idiots who are actually jealous and envious of our great big magnificent, monumental, and Majestic bodies.

That's because they don't have bodies. They are just Talking Heads floating in the air!

When you're just a Talking Head floating in the air, then it must really suck to be you!

WOW! Now that is a rather creepy thought!

WWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

[Polite24]

I don't think you're 400 pounds.

[Fat Man]

I don't think you're 400 pounds.

Those photos of me were taken back in April of 2007 when I weighed about 370 pounds. So, I'm about 30 pounds heavier now than I was when those photos were taken.

My measurements:

Chest 56 inches
Waist 64 inches
Hips 70 inches
Thighs 36 inches

When I sit down, my hips spread out to almost 80 inches around.

So, when I sit around the house, I really a sit AROUND THE HOUSE!!!

I'm somewhat pear-shaped being larger down below than above.

[Fat Man]

Here are some more good reasons to avoid Bariatric Surgery.

Another article by Charlotte Cooper.

http://www.charlottecooper.net/docs/fat/fullzine.htm

Ten Reasons Why I Hate Weight Loss Surgery*


I wrote this article for Full zine.

* It's the surgery I hate, not the people who've had it.

1. It kills people
0.5 - 1% of people die within 30 days of undergoing the surgery. That's one person out of every hundred. In 2004 the National Institutes of Health estimated that 140,000 Americans had the procedure. This means that, statistically speaking, 1,400 people died within 30 days of having the surgery in one year alone. Mortality rates may actually be higher than that.

The figures are currently released by those who carry out the surgery, for example hospitals and medical institutions, and because these procedures are so popular and lucrative it's likely that they would downplay the risks in order to make weight loss surgery seem more appealing.

The other thing is that deaths attributed to obesity may actually be caused by weight loss, which also camouflages the real statistics. Because the surgery is so new, it's hard to get a picture of long term mortality, although I'd say that sectioning off an area of your stomach, inducing starvation and massive weight loss, plus surgical complications that can include pulmonary embolism, intestinal leak and deep vein thrombosis is unlikely to be very good for you in the long run.

2. It destroys people's health
Healthy fat people are being pressured to have this surgery with the promise that it'll make them healthier. In reality, the post-surgery experience involves a lot of disgusting shit and "sour belch"-related trauma, plus gallstones, fertility problems, hair loss and more. If you lose a lot of weight you'll still look weird and you'll also have a ton of excess skin that'll need cutting off in another operation. Add to the equation repeated hospitalizations, and life-long medical treatment. Oh, and I forgot to mention the psychological issues; if you were a fucked-up fatty before the surgery, you'll be a lot more fucked-up afterwards - better start saving for therapy now.

3. It suggests that there is a cure for that which is a normal part of human body diversity
It reminds me of aversion therapy for gay people.

4. It relies on a powerful yet false fantasy
The desire for fast, almost magical, seemingly effortless bodily transformation is at the heart of people's fascination with weight loss surgery. The truth - pain, its health-ruining effects, the grimness of being a helpless hospital patient - could not be farther from the fantasy. Weight loss surgery also demonstrates the depressing truth that most people would rather die, or ruin their health, than be fat.

5. It's being offered to teenagers
Weight loss surgery is being touted as a useful weapon against the global obesity epidemic(sic), and fat teens are now being targeted lest they turn into - horrors! - fat adults. Weight loss surgery is also being used as a gate keeping device by medics who withhold other kinds of treatment from fat patients unless they lose weight. I don't know about you but I think teenagers should be spending their time smoking behind the bike sheds and getting off with each other at parties, not dying on the operating table before they've even begun their lives.

6. Weight loss surgery evangelicals are kind of creepy
Carnie Wilson and Sharon Osbourne are your role models.

7. After all that, it's not necessarily permanent
A gastric band might limit the amount of food you can eat, but it can't stop you liquidizing your favorite calorific treats and slurping them down. Your body's genetics, your metabolism, are powerful things and a teeny-tiny band might not be enough to stop them bringing you back to your rightful size. By the way, Carnie's putting on weight again.

8. It promotes the myth that fat people, left untreated, will die of their morbid obesity
Obviously we are too stupid, too far gone, to be able to make decisions about who we are, how we want to live. Self-determination is not for the likes of us, so we're better off putting all that complicated stuff into the hands of the experts, those ill-informed medics who are ignorant of fat liberation or fat autonomy but who know what's best for us, who think they can fix us, and who profit greatly from our terrible, sad, unfortunate, disease-ridden bodies.

9. It rides on a wave of fat phobia
The ads don't say: "Ew, fat pig, you're gross!" It's more subtle than that, it's in the core beliefs, in the language, a denial that fatness could be anything but completely wrong, the absolute opposite of all that is right in the world, and that it must be eradicated. Inherent is the idea that fat people are treated as objects of pity, fear and disgust, a problem for whom the only solution is surgery. It's about presenting this view as the only view, it obliterates dissent against the authoritorial voice of corporate and medical power. It's full of self-perpetuating logic.

10. It is completely pointless
There are many non-invasive, risk-free ways of improving your health and quality of life if you are fat, so why bother with surgery? Consider a support group, wellness activities, activism, therapy, consciousness-raising before you choose surgery. Trash your scales, treat yourself to some fat liberation books, learn to value your bodacious bod. Life as a fatty can be really good, don't ruin it, baby!

RIGHT ON!!!

Actually, living life as a fat person really isn't so bad. It's only the prejudicial elements in society that makes life difficult for us fat people.

It's a known medical fact that fat people who never attempted to go on weight loss diets actually live longer than those who have been going on one diet after another.

For example:

I have a health care worker who comes to my home on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. She cleans my apartment for me and cooks a meal for me on those days. I needed the services of a health care worker because, due to the arthritis in my knees and ankles, I have been unable to do my own house cleaning.

She's like a sister to me, and I'm one of her most favorite clients.

Anyway . . . . .

Her mother is fat, about 5 feet tall and over 250 pounds, and her fat mother is 89 years old. She has NEVER been on any weight loss diets. Her doctor wants her to lose weight, and she tells her doctor to "shove it up left!" She loves to eat, and she actually loves being fat! So, what the Hell!!! She 89 years old! I say let her be!

The sad truth is, that as most people get older, they lose their appetites and run the risk of malnutrition which can cut their lives short. So, if she still has a good appetite at the age of 89 and love to eat, and doesn't mind being fat, or even likes being fat, then I say, good for her!!!

My health care worker is rather slender, but she would like to gain some weight because she doesn't like being too thin. She also has a good appetite. In fact, she even calls herself a "little glutton" but no matter how much she eats, she just can't seem to gain any weight.

She has however gained about 10 pounds over the past year since she has been working for me, and she's happy about that. I gave her some pointers on how she can make her work easier, and when she's done working, during the last half hour before she leaves, we just relax and talk and I always keep a large bottle of Canada Dry Ginger Ale for her so she can have a drink and a snack before going home from work.

I'm her favorite client. I'm her biggest client and her favorite. She loves us fat people, probably because her mother is fat, and she thinks that we fat people are cute! To her, we fat people are like big babies that need lots of tender loving care.

Well, I guess we fat people do look a lot like big babies, and I'm perfectly comfortable with that.

She's my adopted sister and I'm her adopted baby, and I'm perfectly happy with the idea.