Survival

"You can't take flight without looking up and letting go"

I love Ellen, but I found her spiel about Abercrombie & Fitch offensive and alienating…

I’m short, therefore I wear smaller clothes than an average person. I wear a 00 or 0 at a healthy weight for my height. I know she didn’t mean it to sound like she was calling people like me nobodies, but that’s what it felt like. It just made me feel shitty about my size. I mean even when I was 123 pounds post-partum, the biggest I’ve ever been, I was a size 2. 123 is borderline overweight for my height. I know she meant well, but that joke was hurtful.