Hello, faithful and wonderful readers. First, a big thank-you for your interest in this project. I love getting your comments, emails, likes, and I also love hearing you yell that I should be home, writing the next chapter, instead of walking my dog. You’re the best. I mean it.
Now, a little note of caution: If reading about body dysmorphia, weight gain, and calorie-counting is triggering for you, please feel free to skip the next chapter. It focuses closely on these themes and how Willa grapples with them. As Mary HK Choi says at the start of her amazing new book, Yolk, “this story may be emotionally expensive for you. Please be gentle with yourselves — sensitivity is a superpower. And please know that there is no such thing as a bad body. Truly. Take up space, it is your birthright.”
And again, thank you.
— Christy