it's a me :)

[mickeym]

I've been scanning family photos, and thought I'd share one with y'all. I like this picture, but looking at it makes me kind of sad, too, because I don't really remember this person I was; she seems like a stranger. Also, looking at it makes me wonder about the brainwashing done in and by my family -- because I wasn't fat, and yet, I was told I was, and believed I was.





That's me, my mom, my sister. I was fifteen, Jen was twelve.

Comments

[lk737.livejournal.com]

hon, i don't think you were overweight at all. it appears like your sister is abnormally thin, was she? i hope you don't feel this way at all, because you truly weren't. *hugs you*

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

I was heavier than I should have been for my age and height -- I think I was probably somewhere in the area of 150-160. But I wasn't *fat* like I believed I was.

My sister...yeah. She went through several years where she flirted with anorexia. Lots of exercising, not much eating. She never got skeletal, and she did finally ease back on the exercising and start to eat more. We all have a lot of eating/food/body image issues in my family, unfortunately.