Authorpreneur Dashboard – Charlene Carr
Skinny Me
Literature & Fiction
Jennifer Carpenter dreams of being a different person - A person with confidence, a person with beauty, a person who weighs a heck of a lot less. At twenty seven, her world falls apart. She’s out of work, her mother has died, her estranged brother is in a coma and, despite good qualifications, each and every job interview ends in another rejection. Marked by the teasing, taunts, and fat jokes that defined her childhood, Jennifer blames her current lack of success on her ever growing waist band. In need of a change, Jennifer puts her dream of ‘skinny’ above all else. Obsessed with this mission, she devotes her life to becoming the ideal version of herself even if it means becoming alienated from the only people who love her. Determined to lose the weight she believes is ruining her life, Jennifer finds herself in danger of losing so much more.
Book Bubbles from Skinny Me
Letting go
In life it's so easy to let the past cripple us, to let it define us. We hold onto experiences, beliefs, heartache, thinking that those things are still real, that they have control over us ... but they don't, unless we let them. This idea was something I really wanted to explore in Skinny Me, the way we so often let our past create our future. It doesn't have to. Instead, we can simply learn from our past, recognize the pain, and realize that the only moment that ever defines us is the one we're living right now. After that passes, we have the freedom to move on from it and just keep living our current moment. Easy to say, and hard to do, but when we do - oh how beautiful life is!
Self Image
We exist in a society that so often judges people by their outward appearance. Never have humans lived in a world with more widespread pressure to conform to society's version of the ideal woman or has the female form been under such scrutiny. As a result, many women, myself included, judge themselves by the reflection they see in the mirror, and letting that image shape their identity. We are more than our physical forms, more than the weight we carry or the 'flaws' we perceive. We are not our bodies. We are so much more.
