Joni Edelman

As long as I can remember having paid attention to the media, I can remember a woman's weight—or body in general—being a news story.

Suffering is America’s favorite thing to do. We starve ourselves to lose weight, and we’re a success story. We don’t sleep, and we’re just getting SO MUCH DONE. We do a thousand things a day and involve our kids in a thousand activities, because somehow, in some perverted way, that makes us successful.

Oh hey remember that time in 1804 when Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton had an actual duel, with actual guns and Burr shot Hamilton and Hamilton did not shoot Burr. And then the next day Hamilton died.

I did The Today Show, and after that spent 45 minutes talking to Inside Edition. If you're confused, imagine how I felt.

You should know that she is a really awesome human.

I don’t think of myself as fat. Not inside, anyway.

Psychiatric illness is still stigmatized. And that’s hard when you have a psychiatric illness.

You do not have to hate your body — but you don’t have to love it either. While I'm happy with my fat body, I miss being thin.

How do I raise a boy to love and respect all women regardless of size in a world where he is bombarded with images of what is attractive?

"Food isn't the enemy –– calling it the enemy is the enemy."