This quote is brought to you from pages 20 and 21 of Eve Ensler’s The Good Body. Eve is the author of the Vagina Monologues and I am reading her new book. This passage is from someone talking about their time at Fat Camp. I thought it was poignant and quite funny.

As Camryn said, “this is for all the fat girls.”

Fat is as low, disgusting, as gross as you can get. Like when I’m shopping in the regular stores they always keep the plus sizes in the back like porn. I feel like a ho trying things on and the PLUS SIZE sign is always so huge. Just ’cause I’m fat doesn’t mean I’m blind. “Excuse me, are you going to eat that? ‘Cause if not, can you give it to me? Oh…. She’s saving it for later.”

Skinny bitches never have to beg, they never have to work at anything. They’re skinny. Fat girls do everything double. We have to be funny. Fat girls give the best head. Don’t we, Eve? We work harder to keep our men. Fat girls always swallow.

You know Eve, last night, after the counselors went to sleep, some of us fat girls, we had a wicked night. We stripped off our bathing suits and we went chunky-dunking in the pool. We jumped off the high diving board and made huge waves. Some of the beach chairs just floated away. It felt so good. We did some fat-girl water ballet. Some Swan Ass Lake. We were pointing our chubby toes and kicking our legs. We look so much better naked then in those made for skinny bitches bathing suits. I have to tell you, in the moonlight we were all round and moundy. We looked beautiful.

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