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Here Is My Prescription To Heal All Wounds. Watch The Film Funny Girl At Least Five Times, Eat At Least 45 Chocolate Bars, And Hang Out With All Those Friends You Blew Off To Hang Out With Your Ex. I Truly Believe That, Through A Combination Of Nutella, Old Pals And Barbra Streisand, We Can Achieve Happiness And, Very Probably, World Peace.

I Always Was Really Confident About Myself, About My Voice, Myself As A Person, My Body, All Of Those Things, But As A Songwriter - I Just Didn't Identify As A Songwriter At All.

Reclaiming The Word Fat Was The Most Empowering Step In My Progress. I Stopped Using It For Insult Or Degradation And Instead Replaced It With Truth, Because The Truth Is That I Am Fat, And That's Ok. So Now When Someone Calls Me Fat, I Agree, Whereas Before I Would Get Embarrassed And Emotional.

I Grew Up With The Motto Of "they Can't Kill You And Eat You," And I Still Think That's Right. You Sure As Hell Can't! When It Comes To Speaking About My Body Makes Other People Uncomfortable But It Doesn't Make Me Uncomfortable. It Makes Them Think More About Themselves Than It Makes Them Judge Me. I've Always Had This Body And Had To Live With It. I've Never Been A Little Thing. I've Been Smaller But I've Never Been Small, Even As A Baby. I've Never Had That Window Into That Kind Of World Where People Only Talk To You Because You're Conventionally Sexy.

I'm A Feminist, Of Course, And I Feel As If I'm Very Politically Correct, Although I Do Question What's Pc And What's Not - I Don't Just Accept What I'm Told.