Hi Kayla,

I'm someone who was once very fat, like HUGE. I lost all the weight (through a surgery called a duodenal switch) and all the health problems got better and my life changed a lot. But my depression did not change one bit. Unless something changes big time, I will be on medication and in therapy for the rest of my life.

My body is never going to look like that of a lifelong skinny person, not even if I had all the money in the world for plastic surgery. But it's seen me this far and I love it for being steadfast and faithful to me through a lot of hard stuff.

Perhaps some day you will be able to see yourself that way, too. I know it's hard to be the fat girl among all the skinny "pretty girls." Guess what? They get older and saggier, too. (And almost all of them think there's something terribly wrong with their bodies.)