Thin Is the New Happy: A Memoir

Youve heard the phrase the mirror is not your friend. For Valerie Frankel the mirror was so much more than not a friend. It was the mean girl who stole her lunch money bitch-slapped her in the ladies room and cut the hair off her Barbie. . Like most women Valerie spent most of her conscious life on a diet thinking about a diet ignoring a diet or failing on a diet. At age eleven her mother put Val on her first weight-loss program. As a teen she was enrolled in Weight Watchers (for which she invented creative ditching methods). As a young woman her world felt right only when she was able to zip a certain pair of jeans. Not wanting to pass this legacy on to her own daughters Valerie set out to cleanse herself of her obsession. Thin Is the New Happy is the true story of one womans quest to exorcise her bad body-image demons to uncover the truths behind what put them there and to learn how to truly love herself.