Pages: 320 (Audiobook)

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: March 27, 2018

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

I wish this book had been around in my early twenties. I have been lucky to have parents who have loved me and encouraged me no matter what size I am but I have always had a small issue with worrying about what others think of me and a little self-conscious wearing clothes that fit instead of baggy clothes that I thought hid everything. In just the last ten years or so have I learned to be comfortable in my own skin. If I had this book in my early twenties I can only imagine how I would have learned to embrace me for me earlier in life.

Chrissy Metz writes as if you are sitting at the dining room table, drinking coffee and sharing your life with each other. You really feel as if she is a friend. Some reviews say this is a self-help book and others classify it as a memoir. I would say it is a cross between the two but in no way did I feel as if she was telling me “Do this or you will never be happy.” She was conversationally telling the reader how she came to love who she is and maybe something in her conversation will help you.

If you are the parent of a young woman who feels unworthy this may be a book you can read together and talk about and help your young woman love herself. If you are phobic of overweight people this may be a book you read to learn we are humans too and have feelings and want the same thing in life you do: love and acceptance.

I commend Chrissy for talking about the ugly and non-ugly parts of her life. I hope she stays true to herself as her fame rises.