"The nearer Kim and I approached the decision to marry, the more I was filled with a paralyzing fear. Was I ready? Was I making the right choice? Was Kim the right person to marry? Would she make me happy? Then, one fateful night..."
"I looked back to the bed. Still empty. And then it happened. I fell to my knees, and then to my back. It came from up from my gut. I could almost physically feel it moving to the top of my abdomen, to my chest, into my neck and then my head. I cannot describe the pain."
"You are so unbelievably excited that your child is born…and in the next moment you believe you’ll have to say farewell to your wife forever. It was like being numbed."
After 10 years of the roller coaster cycle of never being able to love her body for what it was, this mom is now a proud thick BBW mom (that is, big beautiful woman).
A Canadian traffic reporter for Global News Calgary recently responded to an online troll on air in the most perfect way, after the most recent body-shaming email she received from a viewer struck a nerve.
"I did everything I could to be what you wanted. I did everything you told me to do. It still wasn’t good enough. You left me for a younger prettier girl."