This is the personal memoir of Stephanie Klein, who struggled with a weight issue during childhood. She details her personal feelings about her weight, and how people and their attitudes and hurtful comments affected her. Her parents were just as guilty as her peers for making rude and insensitive comments about her body, which caused lasting damage to her self esteem. Her parents even sent her to a camp for overweight children when she was in eighth grade.

This book gives an inside look into the goings on at these "fat camps". I think the author did a great job explaining what went on there. I also think the author did a great job in conveying how damaging it is for people to constantly made horrible comments about other people's bodies, especially when some of those people are your own family members. This would be a good book for parents to read, because it offers a great reminder of how your words and actions toward your child can affect them in the long run.