A review by craftychelc
No Big Deal by Bethany Rutter

4.0

I wish teenage me had had this book so I could have learned to love myself like Emily loves herself. I knew exactly how she felt with her mum constantly projecting her own insecurities, but I didn't have the true self-worth that Emily does. I found that really inspiring! I never had the confidence to be exactly who I was and to not give two fucks about what everyone thought. With more (fictional!) role models like Emily in the world, I would have understood that being fat wasn't all there was to me. Luckily, we seem to very slowly becoming less fatphobic on a whole, but there's still a way to go.

"I’m not just a tragic fat loser. I’m a cool fat babe." < put this on my tombstone!!

I found some elements a little cliched, but overall, a really great step in the right direction.