I Now Relate to a Factitious Character but a Real World Issue
Recently I started watching the newest television show This is Us . A heartfelt series that shows a family and how they have grown. I love this show, I think I cry almost every episode! No it is not because, while I value my family and I see how they are tight and in need of each other, I cry because I relate just a little bit too much with one of the main characters - Kate. She is a beautiful "overweight" woman who has a fit and famous twin and a wonderful adopted fit brother. There might be some spoilers so if you want to watch the show, now is your chance to stop reading and start watching! Her whole life she has been deemed by society as a chubby little girl, into a chubby teenager, and then morphed into what we deem as "overly obese". Her mother - out of the love in her heart - doesn't want to see her ridiculed and does it as protection - but starts her out on eating fruit and cottage cheese while her brothers get the sugary cereal. Not fair! In one ep