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Fat_ is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her.I mean, is __at_ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is __at_ worse than __indictive_, __ealous_, __hallow_, __ain_, __oring_ or __ruel_? Not to me; but then, you might retort, what do I know about the pressure to be skinny? I__ not in the business of being judged on my looks, what with being a writer and earning my living by using my brain_I went to the British Book Awards that evening. After the award ceremony I bumped into a woman I hadn__ seen for nearly three years. The first thing she said to me? __ou__e lost a lot of weight since the last time I saw you!___ell,_ I said, slightly nonplussed, __he last time you saw me I__ just had a baby.__hat I felt like saying was, ____e produced my third child and my sixth novel since I last saw you. Aren__ either of those things more important, more interesting, than my size?_ But no _ my waist looked smaller! Forget the kid and the book: finally, something to celebrate!I__e got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don__ want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I__ rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny _ a thousand things, before __hin_. And frankly, I__ rather they didn__ give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons.
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Fat_ is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her.I mean, is __at_ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is __at_ worse than __indictive_, __ealous_, __hallow_, __ain_, __oring_ or __ruel_? Not to me; but then, you might retort, what do I know about the pressure to be skinny? I__ not in the business of being judged on my looks, what with being a writer and earning my living by using my brain_I went to the British Book Awards that evening. After the award ceremony I bumped into a woman I hadn__ seen for nearly three years. The first thing she said to me? __ou__e lost a lot of weight since the last time I saw you!___ell,_ I said, slightly nonplussed, __he last time you saw me I__ just had a baby.__hat I felt like saying was, ____e produced my third child and my sixth novel since I last saw you. Aren__ either of those things more important, more interesting, than my size?_ But no _ my waist looked smaller! Forget the kid and the book: finally, something to celebrate!I__e got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don__ want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I__ rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny _ a thousand things, before __hin_. And frankly, I__ rather they didn__ give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons.

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