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Fat Camp Follies | Pop Star

12.01.2009
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Note: this is the fourth post in my Fat Camp Follies series. To see them all, visit here. I went to Fat Camp during the pre-American Idol days. Hansen were still tiny boys singing “MMM Bop” and Britney Spears and N’Sync were just about the biggest things in the universe to a teenager. Growing up, I …

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Fat Camp Follies: 100 Shades of Red

10.21.2009
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After all the kum-ba-ya ceremonies of the first week, my hormonal teenage personality began to unleash itself. This community of big kids (and some not so big kids) was like a warm hug embracing me from all the jackasses of my youth. Here, people understood what it was like to be teased and riddled with …

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Fat Camp Follies: Arrival and Setting the Scene(ry)

10.12.2009
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Note: This is post 2 of 10 in my Fat Camp Follies series. Click here for post 1: Why Fat Camp? OMG, I was going to Cali! Woot! This was back in the day of Tupac’s “California Love”, and man was I excited. (“Welcome everybody to the wild wild west!”) My mom and I shopped for …

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Fat Camp Follies: Why Fat Camp?

10.06.2009

Why fat camp? The obvious answer to this question is, “um, because I was fat.” But that doesn’t help much I suppose. My freshman year was rough for me. Hormones, high school and depression- woo hoo! Not fun. I was put on Paxil and gained a good chunk of weight. I was very, very unhappy (suicidal), even …

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