Joni Edelman

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

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

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

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You know what’s an epidemic? Making people feel second rate and ashamed, criminalizing them for something like having an obese pregnancy.

Sam: The first time you mentioned that you have five kids I was like WHAT THE ACTUAL. FIVE HUMANS. FIVE HUMANS CAME OUT OF YOU. Like, not at the same time, but they came out and like, that sounds painful and scary WHY DID YOU DO THAT??

When you push a small human out of your body, things tend to get a little weird.

Misogyny is pervasive. And my three boys are living it all.

When it comes to your physique, your mind can actually work against you.