FBW: Interview with Jenny The Bloggess

FBW stands for Featured Blogger of the Week. Each week we will feature one of our calendar ladies or gentleman. Mondays will be a post written by the FBW and Wednesdays will be an interview of the FBW. If you want to know how you can be a part of the Blogger Body Calendar project, please click here.

1) Why did you decide to join the Blogger Body Calendar project?

Because I was asked and because I struggled with anorexia when I was younger and it took help from the outside to pull me out of it.

2) What do you believe is the single biggest factor causing poor body image?

Low self-esteem. I think we often have impossibly high standards of how we should look and act and feel and when those don’t meet our expectations we blame ourselves. It’s a terrible vicious circle.

3) What would other people say about your blog?

There are no words.

4) Describe your calendar photo in 140 characters or less.

Author Katherine Center painted the last paragraph of her novel “Everyone is Beautiful” on me. It was terrifying and empowering.

5) Do you consider yourself successful at blogging? Why or why not?

Yes, because I once got an email from someone who said something I wrote kept her from killing herself. If I never make another dollar from blogging I’ll still consider myself paid because of that.

6) There are a lot of trends in the blogosphere right now, do you think that ninjas, unicorns, and zombies will soon be replaced by tai chi, Big Foot, and people who crave chicken (instead of brains)?

I’m ready for the ninja unicorn zombie trend, personally. We’ll never see them coming.

Jenny is Ms. December.  She writes for Good Mom/Bad Mom on the Houston Chronicle, but needed an uncensored space to say the f-word and talk about ninjas so the “other” blog, The Bloggess, was born.  She also write a satirical sex column, a horrible advice column and she twitters a lot.

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