
In "More, Please," Emma Specter fearlessly explores food, fatphobia, and binge-eating through memoir and reporting. TIME's must-read of 2024 challenges diet culture with what New Yorker's Helen Rosner calls "tender, funny, angry, and sharp as hell" - essential reading for anyone with a body.
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Emma Specter's memoir opens with a piercing confession about beauty's inheritance. Her conventionally attractive mother-with wide-set eyes, straight nose, and perfect blond bob-looms as both inspiration and impossible standard. At sixteen, discovering her mother's old press passes triggered a panic in Emma, suddenly hyper-aware of her aquiline nose, thin lips, and fleshy thighs. This moment crystallized a lifelong struggle with body image that would shape her relationships with food, love, and ultimately herself. In an era where celebrities flaunt Ozempic-induced transformations and "thin is in" dominates cultural conversation once again, Specter offers a radical alternative: what if we stopped organizing our lives around self-denial? What if hunger could be welcomed rather than feared? Our mothers cast long shadows over how we see ourselves. Though Emma's mother never explicitly told her to lose weight, meaningful looks over dinner communicated volumes. Their relationship with food was complicated from the beginning-Emma's first experiences of physical satiety came through breastfeeding, establishing a pattern of guilt around nourishment that would follow her for decades. The intergenerational nature of disordered eating becomes painfully clear when Emma describes bonding with female relatives through diet talk, performing self-deprecation as protection. Her mother, born in 1955-the same year the first McDonald's opened and impossibly lean models began gracing Vogue-survived decades of fad diets. How could she possibly have raised a daughter with body confidence when 76 percent of parents insult their own bodies in front of their children?
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Creado por exalumnos de la Universidad de Columbia en San Francisco
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