Joni Edelman

I just listened to my four and six year-old children (one boy, one girl) have a lengthy bathtime conversation about babies, growing up, m

If you decide pit or leg hair isn't a big deal, then bam! It's not a big deal.

As the mother of three teens, I'm here to tell you: You have nothing to freak out about.

Actually, no, I'm not a gluttonous moron.

photo credit: Lindy West (instagram), by

Suffering is America’s favorite thing to do. We starve ourselves to lose weight, and we’re a success story. We don’t sleep, and we’re just getting SO MUCH DONE. We do a thousand things a day and involve our kids in a thousand activities, because somehow, in some perverted way, that makes us successful.

Our relationship has been a little complicated. I've loved you a lot, and I've loathed you at least that much, but mostly you've just gone unnoticed. Except for those 5 to 7 days every four weeks when you made your presence quite evident, what with the river of life blood and the random excruciating, and from what I can tell, unnecessary, contractions.

Body politics activist. Photographer. Chronic quoter of Monty Python. Unapologetic fat chick.

What to really expect when you're expecting.

This is an article about a real product that exists, that was designed to deliver an electric shock, to YOUR BODY, to stop you from eati