Rebecca Golden, author of "Butterbabe: The True Adventures of a 40-Stone Outsider" (Random House UK), lives and writes in Toledo, Ohio where she's hard at work on a second memoir ("Bulletproof Cherry") and a trashy novel about fat vampires and werehamsters.

Rebecca Golden's Salon stories

Monday, Aug 17, 2009 03:20 PDT

Excuse me while I stick my head in the toilet

Ever wonder what it would be like to clean strangers' homes for money? Well, I don't have to
Tuesday, Aug 8, 2006 04:40 PDT

My big fat obnoxious former self

I'm glad I don't weigh 571 pounds anymore. But I miss my big-girl righteousness and bravado.

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