Joni Edelman

I’m lucky to be smart, to have an astonishingly good memory. Or maybe I’m lucky to be bipolar.

Now that I've embarked upon the decade I once considered "old," there are a few things I'd like my 20 (and 30) year-old self to know.

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I'll let you in on a little secret - being thin didn't make me happy, but being "Fat" does! Be fat and happy. Be unapologetically fat.

Brangelina are splitting up. A sad day for them, a joyful day for single ladies everywhere.

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.

Nutritionists have weighed in on what to order at McDonald's. Here's what I think you should get instead.

You do not have to hate your body — but you don’t have to love it either. While I'm happy with my fat body, I miss being thin.

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

I did The Today Show, and after that spent 45 minutes talking to Inside Edition. If you're confused, imagine how I felt.