Joni Edelman

By baby three, well let’s just say things are a little anticlimactic, at least where furnishings are concerned. Hand me down crib. Check.

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

My cocktail is wrong. It’s a gin and tonic with only gin. It’s a martini with 10 olives. And I can’t stand the sun. Not today. Not this month.

Look, I'm not saying McDonald's did this themselves, I'm just saying, a lot of the people that work there probably agree.

91% of women report dissatisfaction with their body. Ninety-one. I know you know math—that’s 9/10 of women.

photo credit: Lindy West (instagram), by

I guess the point of a spiritual awakening is just that; if you were already awake, you wouldn’t need a moment that was self-defining. You’d already be defined.

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

Are the advances worth the trade-offs? You be the judge.

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