Poor little rich girl whines for 400 pages. Ugh.

Read 30% in 7h at 65% speed 

I stopped after Virginia went to a doctor that sounded nice, listened to her, and said as long as she's healthy her weight isn't an issue, then when she half heartedly agreed to let her mother speak to him about her weight, the doctor goes on to unleash all the fatphobic stuff possible and tell her her weight is bad etc. And then she starts starving herself because her being thin is the only thing she wants after that. 
The I read from summaries that the book deals with sexual assault later on and I don't want to read about that. 

Also the book description says it's a new edition with foreword but that isn't present in the audiobook, it goes on straight to the story. 

I first read this when I was in high school, and I have just finished re-reading this as an adult because I found out there was a sequel. As I remember, it is a very heartfelt novel about a girl trying to develop a good relationship with her body in spite of the fatphobic world she lives in. I remember liking the ending then and I still appreciated it in my rereading. I somehow forgot all of the incidents of self-harm in the book. Those were very alarming and not for the faint of heart. Even so, it creates an important contrast between

I listened to the 15th anniversary version of the audiobook, and I was surprised by the "text edits" that took place. I don't really feel like those helped the narrative. Rather than making the book feel more current, it actually drew more attention to the anachronisms. Specifically, you really can't make a novel that takes place in high school during the 2010s without making some mention of social media. Along those lines, I would imagine that a teenager in the 2010s would at least be aware of the fat positivity/body positivity movements on social media. I understand why the author didn't explore this theme, since that would've meant rewriting the whole book, but if that's the case, it would've been better to simply leave the narrative in the early aughts. 

A problem that I had with the book is that BIPOC characters seem pretty peripheral to the protagonist's life, despite the fact that she is living in New York City. The author does that annoying thing where she only mentions a character's race or skin color if they are nonwhite. I was particularly taken aback when the protagonist discussed wanting to take Chinese because she could curse people out and no one outside of chinatown would know what she was saying. That felt rather fetishizing to me. I'm curious to see if that dynamic improves in the second book.