But before anyone can have a slice of pizza, they must step on the scale, see how they measure up and regale the others with a tale of tightness they encountered while home for break. It’s why I wanted that close friend to be my first time so that I could have a chance at feeling as seen as the girls who were constantly recognized for their looks by the folks who were interested in them.

years later, I’m reminded of my younger version’s attachment to this Drake line/verse when watching Twitter talk about DaBaby, an artist who has slowly worked his way into my heart and weekly music musings.As one of three Black girls in my year, and quite literally the largest girl in the student body, I saw it as a testimony to my undesirability.

Now, Melissa's breasts had always been ample, but since her weight gain, she had gone up a cup size. There were three slides in front of them, two of them were for adults, as well as a much smaller slide for kids.I fall into the ‘supersized, big, beautiful women’ bracket which is for ladies who weigh 350-500lbs. With so much fat on her lower abdomen, it looked as if Melissa's fat ass would bust the bikini right off.

Melissa wrapped her loose fitting sarong around her round hips, accompanied by a white t-shirt that failed to cover her plump midriff. Mel caught a glimpse of her fleshy rump in the mirror, soft, white fat bulging out from under her bikini, which probably took up a mere quarter of her hefty behind. Her well-fed bum cheeks completely filled the rounded pipe, with only a small gap peeking between her bum cheeks apparent. From heart-eyed responses to his interactions with Lizzo and bigger girls he brings up on stage, to jokes about Future wanting to leave the club after DaBaby shows up, it looks like the bigger girls on my feed have a soft spot for him.

I also liked the video of him with the girl in the blue romper on stage because he asked her for verbal consent to smack her cheeks. Many fan’s cheers exceeding a volume thought impossible as the numerous smaller display screens shook slightly by the noise. Jodie and Vicky had lost the weight they wanted, and were eager to show off in bikinis at the water park.

As she plodded uphill, her entire body wobbled uncontrollably, her excessive movements causing her bikini to become quite uncomfortable.

I’m trying to sort out how I can continue to teach folks around me that the main “objective” of our lives is not to be beautiful, without necessarily disregarding how and why we place so much value in others’ opinions of our physio-sexuality.