“I used to look in the mirror and take pride in my figure, but that was when I was legitimately a full-figured woman," she writes. "I’d gradually gone from full-figured to morbidly obese."
She then had gastric bypass surgery.
"At first, I didn’t know if the surgery would work," she writes in the first-person essay. "I had spent my entire adult life telling everyone that I was fine with the way I looked. I never thought I’d have to explain it.
