Joni Edelman

All boobs are good boobs. And all areola too!

"She has created an important space on the internet and in the real world, a space that women and girls are free to take up however they please."

A weekly trip to Walmart would end in tears — first theirs, then mine. Them pining in the toy aisle. Me saying no. Over and over. It wasn’t so much that I wanted to buy my kids whatever they wanted, it was that I couldn’t.

Good news: they'll probably grow out of it. Bad news: probably not until they are 23.

In today's HELLO, OBVIOUSLY news: National Coffee Day.

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

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

When I was little, any time I got an insect bite or stubbed my toe, I had to ask my mom, “Am I going to die? If I was going to die from this, I’d already be dead — right?” I also had a 30-minute prayer that I needed to say at each meal or else everyone would be poisoned and die. And corners. I had to check all of them before I went to bed.

How do I raise a boy to love and respect all women regardless of size in a world where he is bombarded with images of what is attractive?

It doesn’t get any more difficult to insult ourselves, regardless of how old we are. It would be ideal if it got easier to respect ourselves, but it generally doesn’t do that either. Every year you age, and every year the aging you looks at the you of the years before and thinks, I can’t believe I thought I was fat/ugly/etc.