14 DAY TRIAL // Tina Fey, now five months pregnant with her second child, knows a thing or two about weight management, as she proves in her “Bossypants,” out now in book stores. Being skinny or fat are just normal stages in one’s life, one shouldn’t lose sleep over it, she says.
Fey, a well known writer, stand up comedienne and actress, has always struggled with her weight but, in time, she’s learned not to pay too much attention to the number she sees when she gets up on the scales.
Being skinny and being more on the curvy side come with advantages, just like they also come with very nasty downsides. She’s been both, so she knows.
“We should leave people alone about their weight. Being skinny for a while (provided you actually eat food and don’t take pills or smoke to get there) is a perfectly fine pastime,” Fey writes in her memoirs (quotes via here).
“Everyone should try it once, like a super-short haircut or dating a white guy,” she adds. That doesn’t mean making being skinny your lifetime goal.
Nevertheless, when Tina herself was thin, she loved the extra attention she got from men, as well as when other women would tell her she was getting too skinny.
“Men I had met before suddenly paid attention to me… and I hated them for it. I loved it when people told me I was getting too thin,” she writes.
On the downside, she was always cold and would often sleep with a pillow in between her knees because they would “clank” together at night.
“We should leave people alone about their weight. Being chubby for a while (provided you don’t give yourself diabetes) is a natural phase of life and nothing to be ashamed of,” she says.
“Like puberty or slowly turning into a Republican,” Tina adds, before detailing some of the best moments she experience when she was heavier.