But what was so funny to me was the poem was about him. When he heard my poem, he looked up at me with his blue eyes and he asked me, ‘You wrote this?” And, of course, I was nonverbal because I was totally crushing on him, and I was just shaking my head “yes.” And, he said, “This is good! Could I have a copy of this?” This is how it all started-someone seeing me right through my writing. Sure, we had all kinds of classes with each other, and did marching band competitions together but he’d never really seen me before. When we read the poems out loud to the class, #40 looked at me for the very first time. Our teacher gave us an assignment to write a poem for a contest. And, then in walked #40-that’s what I called him. I had never really shared my writing outside of essays that I had to write in school. But in my sophomore year, I did not like my art teacher, and some of my friends were taking a creative writing class. And, I was a total arts girl-I took private art lessons, and was in advanced art classes at school. Oftentimes, I would sit under a tree in my backyard and write, draw, and listen to music. You can live your best and happy life as a fat person and anyone who says differently isn’t worth speaking to.How did you first become a writer? Is it true it had to do with a boy, a poem, and a creative writing class?ĭoesn’t it always start with a boy? But, before that, I was the youngest person in my family and in my neighborhood, and lived in a rural area where I didn’t have a lot of playmate.
There’s nothing wrong with being fat and it doesn’t mean you’re unhealthy. The way that mothers push diet culture on to their young daughters is something that needs to stop. Ellie is such a brave and eloquent little girl and I wish I’d had that kind of chutzpah in me at her age.Įllie’s growth throughout the book and finally being able to stand up and say how badly she was being hurt by doctors and her own mother was what I could have used as a kid. I think what really broke me was when Ellie picked “Song for a Whale” to read for her English class since I’ve also just read that book (and I also highly recommend!). I related to Ellie in so many ways having also grown up as a fat little Jewish girl who ate her lunches in the library.
Starfish is about a young girl named Ellie who’s just trying to get through life and school as a fat girl even when so much of the world is against her.
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