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.

Our relationship has been a little complicated. I've loved you a lot, and I've loathed you at least that much, but mostly you've just gone unnoticed. Except for those 5 to 7 days every four weeks when you made your presence quite evident, what with the river of life blood and the random excruciating, and from what I can tell, unnecessary, contractions.

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?

Good god, where will I ever find someone who will love me in such a pitiful condition?

When I had my first child, I couldn't have prepared for the way it would make me feel.

Body politics activist. Photographer. Chronic quoter of Monty Python. Unapologetic fat chick.

If you decide pit or leg hair isn't a big deal, then bam! It's not a big deal.

All boobs are good boobs. And all areola too!

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

My mother didn't teach me how to be a mother. But my babies did.