1. I was a chubby kid who grew into an overweight adult. 2. Chances are, a significant number of them took up the game after watching a chubby kid with a flattop and big swing march down our fairways. 3. Chubby kids are a natural, struggling as they do with their obesity, all the while encountering troubling emotional effects that further complicate their young lives. 4. In those days, chubby kids were considered cute and cuddly, with pudgy cheeks meant for pinching and round tummies ripe for a rub. 5. Last year, Houstonians viewed the national magazine as a svelte bully picking on the chubby little kid on the playground and reacted like a protective, angry mother. 6. She was the chubby kid from foster care, the child who would feed the pain of abandonment and loss with food. |