Read My Hips isn’t a self-help book, it isn't how-to; it’s storytelling.  They're my stories -- stories about an intense and enduring desire to be beautiful that once burned inside my doughy adolescent middle like a Santeria bodega candle.   

Read My Hips is also a love letter to puckery thighs, flabby arms, swollen bellies and round womanly hips.  It's an intimate peek inside my evolving process from body hatred to radical self-acceptance.  It reveals how I learned to love my body the most – ironically, perhaps -- at my heaviest.   

Can't wait to read my stuff?  Check out the archive for a list of essays and other works to sample.

This site's also the perfect place to learn about me or get in touch.      
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