Joni Edelman

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

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.

I am tired of taking medication. I am tired of relying on the manufactured versions of the chemicals and hormones my body could — should? — make for itself.

My husband and I recently traveled together without our kids for the first time . . . in a while. And it was a brand-new ball game.

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.

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

I said (on TV, to Rachael Ray, so there are a few million witnesses): If you want a bikini body, put a bikini on your body.

Psychiatric illness is still stigmatized. And that’s hard when you have a psychiatric illness.

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