I was very skinny and very lanky and kind of awkward. In Puerto Rico, everybody is a little more voluptuous, with these beautiful bodies, and there I was, the skinny, lanky girl.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was not a good-lookin' girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn't pretty. I wasn't cool.
I was awkward-looking with huge brown eyes, dark brown, pencil-straight hair styled into an old-school Romanian bowl haircut from the 1980s. And I was very, very small. I was always the tiniest kid on my street and in my classes at school... The gym was the one place I didn't have to worry about feeling awkward for being so petite.
I was never pretty, never really popular. I was lanky and funny looking.
It was hard to get guys to notice me, period, because I was so skinny and all my friends were curvy. Plus, I used to be very nervous in front of guys.
I was very thin, like a boy, and I was very un-sexy.
I was a skinny 17-year-old.
People always had something to say about the fact I was odd looking, bigger than other people, that I was awkward. When I discovered punk, I bought into it. That look, combined with being fat, made me even less of what people thought a young woman should be.
At school, I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking.
I was a skinny guy growing up, and I still feel like that same skinny kid.
I was a short, chubby kid, pretty shy.