The Girl with the Self-Esteem Issues
A Memoir
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August 15, 2020
A plus-size model tells her story of dealing with years of insecurity. Mercado grew up in "a Mexican American family with traditional values and beliefs." Yet outside that protective circle and especially in school, she always felt "like an alienated stranger who was about to be harassed or abused." Each year, it seemed, her classmates "were getting thinner and thinner while I was growing larger and larger." A part-time on-air job on a Latinx radio station in high school helped Mercado not only find her voice, but also gain enough confidence to start a makeup business. Yet despite these early successes, self-esteem issues tormented the author, who continued to believe that no one "would ever find me attractive or desirable." So when a controlling, much older man began pursuing her, she fell in love "as only an insecure girl" could. Mercado ceded to him in everything only to have him leave just before their first child was born. Another marriage followed, but it ended as they began having problems and Mercado discovered he was having an affair. Her next husband turned out to be both controlling and abusive. Eventually, the author struck out on her own and found success, first as a makeup artist and then as a plus-size model. Then a brain cyst forced her to reassess her life and face the underlying emotional problems that had contributed to her weight (at one point, she writes, she weighed 420 pounds). Interwoven throughout with words of inspiration and advice, some of which tread along standard self-help lines, Mercado's book offers a deeply personal exploration of the causes and effects of the body and weight issues that plague so many girls and women and prevent them from realizing their full potential. An honest and heartfelt celebration of overcoming adversity.
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