Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them. I don't. I don't want you to feel sorry for me.

From the mid 1980s onward Judith Moore wrote mostly for San Diego Reader a weekly publication where Judith Moore sometimes served not uncontroversially as editor. She married and divorced twice having two daughters. This book was about the relationship between food and her life.

This book was about the relationship between food and her life. Moore was born in Oklahoma in 1940 and claimed to have become an obese child weighing 112 pounds by second grade ([1]); Fat Girl is a memoir of her childhood. From the mid 1980s onward Judith Moore wrote mostly for San Diego Reader a weekly publication where Judith Moore sometimes served not uncontroversially as editor.