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Such a Pretty Fat
Jen Lancaster
One Narcissist's Quest To Discover if Her Life Makes Her
Ass Look Big, Or Why Pie is Not The Answer
Personal Training, Session One: I'm standing at the front
desk, waiting for the mythical "Barbie" to appear. While I
was sucking down water and aspirin earlier today, trying to
shed my hangover, I started thinking about how judgmental I
can be. I mean, why should I have instantly freaked out when
I heard someone named Barbie was going to be my trainer?
Sure, the name brings up images of gorgeous girls with long
blonde hair, shiny white teeth, deep tans, and
impossible-toachieve, completely enviable figures, but maybe
this Barbie is different.
Maybe Trainer Barbie is a dark, homely girl with an overbite
and she took up fitness to feel better about her hump and
her skin condition. Yes, that's it. Barbie is all hideous
and disfigured and she will have a heart of gold and because
of this, she'll be devoted to nothing but making me lose
weight...
I stand by the magazine rack and I'm about to pull out this
week's In Touch when I hear my name being called. I turn
around and look for my gargoyle of a trainer.
But I don't see any monsters.
All I see is a gorgeous girl with long blonde hair, shiny
white teeth, a deep tan, and an impossible to-achieve,
completely enviable figure standing there. "Hey, are you
Jen?" she asks. "I'm Barbie!"
Of course you are.
(One Narcissist's Quest To Discover if Her Life Makes Her....)
NAL Trade, May 2008
400 pages ISBN: 0451223896 Trade Size $14.00
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