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“Maturity comes in time, but the body issues are always there. If I were fifteen, I’d want jokes and pictures, especially in this culture with reality TV and sex. It was fun to come up with ways that weren’t too hokey, but I had to fight about the constipation joke with my editor.”
So I wondered, now that all of our body drama was out on the table, how could anyone pose for the next book?
“Everyone assumes that only skinny women want to show their bodies. The most skinny ones [for this book] had the most issues, the larger ones were more like, ‘I’m free, I’m here, I get to show my body!’ They wanted to do it to help younger girls and the photo shoots were like therapy, especially after spray painting a skid mark onto a pair of panties at four in the morning.”
Which might be the only body drama I hang onto to keep me in check.
