If you're in the public eye, you're constantly scrutinised. I was called too thin and then too fat when I was overweight. It's just a shame those are the reactions people have.
If you're in the public eye, you're constantly scrutinised. I was called too thin and then too fat when I was overweight. It's just a shame those are the reactions people have.
Shame is hard to confront. Even if you know it's baseless, it's still hard to come face-to-face with.
People are embracing the thing that made them different growing up instead of letting that thing elicit shame.
Here it is, 2011, and I feel zero shame when I tell you I would like to marry my smartphone. It is a handful of pure delight.
I was copeless. Not just hopeless, but copeless. I tried to keep on working because I was ashamed of acknowledging the fact that I was depressed. You don't use that word.
I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.