Book Report--> Life in the fat lane:))

Before you even pick up this book right away you think that it's another typical book about an Anorexic or Bulimic girl. To your surprise your wrong, this book is different from all the books I have read about Anorexic or Bulimic girls. It starts off with Lara she is 16 years old and she is what most girls wants to be: thin, beautiful, popular, nice, and smart. With a perfect family, she is dating one of the cutest boys in school and she even won homecoming queen her junior year of high school. Weeks after homecoming she notices that she has gained a few punds, unconcerned she works out harder and eats healthier. However, her weight still rises up, after a few months she weights over 200 pounds. She spends a week in a hospital eating from a tube but, she still keeps gaining weight, it's said that she has gotten a rare and yet not curable diease called axell-crowned disease. Soon Lara figures out that life isn't so perfect when your not thin and beautiful. Everyone is cruel and mean to her, and she also discoveres that her family really isn't so perfect startring off with her obsessive weight control freak mother, and rebellious brother, and to top it all off her dad who has had an affair for quite a long time. 

This book makes you realize the importance of life, and how our society is so stereotyped and based off of looks. Girls especially my age think they have to look and act a certain way to make sure everyone likes them. It's like they put on a show and if you don't have the makeup, the clothes, and the hair. Your not worth talking to. My personal opinion is that what matters is on the inside, than the outside. Someone may look beautiful and nice, but they might have a rotten personality. No one is perfect and no one is meant to be that is why god made us all different, so we can all shine on our own. Be happy and accept who you truely are. 

Everyone has their own story to tell and you shouldn't wish to be someone else because you don't know what that person is going through, they may seem perfect on the outside but you don't know what really is going on at home. Also treat people how you want to be treated. Society is based on all looks and just because one person doesn't look like society wants them to look doesn't mean they are amazing in their own way. It just makes you a better person if you give someone that chance and become their friend. Lara wasn't mean to overweight people, but she was secretly disgusted by them, she never admitted that to anyone though. Now that she has to put herself in their shoes she has a different perspective and sees what they go through every single day.