Blythe Baird – “When the Fat Girl Gets Skinny” [1 of 4] #shorts

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The year of skinny pop and sugar-free Jello cups we guzzled vitamin water and Vodka toasting to high school and Survival complementing each other's Thigh gaps trying diets we found on the Internet menthol cigarettes eating in Front of a mirror donating blood Replacing meals with other practical Hobbies like making flower crowns or Fainting Wondering why I haven't had my period in Months or Why breakfast tastes like Giving up or how many more productive Ways I could have spent my time today Besides Googling the calories in the Glue of a U.S envelope watching America's Next Top Model like the gospel Hunting naked over a bathroom scale Shrine crying into an empty bowl of Cocoa Puffs because I only feel pretty When I'm hungry

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