don’t worry, she’s thin

cataloguing the many ways authors choose to tell us that their female character is, in fact, thin. dm me your findings!

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"Leila and I finally settled on a little black dress I'd made in college, which used to be formfitting but now hung slightly loose. I'd been so swept up in every thing, that without even being aware of it, I'd lost a few pounds." Sarah Lotz, The Impossible Us

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@SKINNIELEGEND28 @sandikivereads My account is just tweeting the sentence where the author lets you know the femme MC is thin. It truly is everywhere!

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@sandikivereads Love when they try to have a fat character but the cover makes them slim thic (yes, I’m talking about you, Delilah Green).

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“The prisoner—the princess—was taller than Priya had thought she would be. And thinner…But the princess was tall and gaunt, and although her eyes were still red, she stood utterly still, unblinking.” Tasha Siri, The Jasmine Throne

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"She's shorter than him by a foot, about the same age, slim but not skinny; there's a softness to her cheeks and the line of her jaw. Attractive in a quiet way." Catherine Ryan Howard, 56 Days

A bit more subtle, but still don't worry--the main character is thin!

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"When I think about people, I think about space, how much space a person takes up and how much use that person provides. I am just under five feet tall and just under a hundred pounds." Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay
Thanks to @ejardina for these, the FIRST SENTENCES of the book. 😬

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“She used to be considered lovely. She is petite and slender, and with her round face and bangs and porcelain doll features, people used to assume she was still in her twenties.” Jessamine Chan, The School for Good Mothers

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“Now the two nuns between them remove Marie’s remaining clothing, the silk dress that had been cut narrow from Marie’s mother’s billowing own…Marie covers herself with her lanky arms, burning with fury.” Lauren Groff, Matrix

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@theames Anyhow, if you find any choice examples send them my way.

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@theames I started my account just to record these details, because they are so ubiquitous. I read fairly broadly but it’s still rare that a book doesn’t mention the female MC’s relative smallness. And, just like you said, it makes me feel weird about my own body!

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"As I look in the mirror, I notice I have lost weight in my face since David left. While I have always had a slim frame, my butt and face seem to be the first to pick up any extra weight." Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

🙏 to @eajardina for this!

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“You’re very small with your clothes off. I don’t think I noticed you so small before.” Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You Many thanks to @be_thrifty for the submission 🥰

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“She was so slim, it was as if her clothing covered only angles and not actual flesh.” Emily M. Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines

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“Like Anna Kendrick, Audrey was also petite with auburn hair and, if you were straining for a celebrity look-alike comparison, had a similar facial structure, though she didn’t really have the sam angularity to her jaw” -Emily M. Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines

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“She hasn’t eaten breakfast or lunch today, except two cups of coffee with milk. Her appetite is small this summer.” Sally Rooney, Normal People