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December 23, 2008
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Hi Jennifer,
I loved reading your book Chalked up. After I read it something came to my mind. I remember trying to thin out some sand as a child and my brothers and sisters put dirt on a screen and then I would shake the screen and the big rocks would stay on top of the screen and the sand would go into the pile of smooth sand. Your book reminds me of the rocks on the screen that didn’t quite make it through the screen. There hard and are not yet sand but yet they are but in bigger form.
Thank you for writing your book. Please keep writing, I loved all the big words I had to get a dictionary to understand and liked that. Thank you.
Comment by Cathy — February 9, 2009 @ 7:14 pm
Hey Jen, I just wanted to tell you that although I was never an elite gymnast, and I only got to level 6, I feel like you are someone I can relate to a lot. I, too, had anorexia, but not while I was in gymnastics, it happened years after I “quit” (I never chose to quit, but the only gym in my town shut down, and my mom wouldnt drive me a mere half hour away). I was about sixteen/seventeen, and I worked out at the gym (a regular gym, not a gymnastics gym) constantly, and I ate hardly anything, sometimes nothing in a day. I was (and still am) 5′6″ tall, but then, I got down to 103 pounds. I wanted to get under the 100-pound mark, but I never could, and I’m glad I never did, because I already looked grossly skinny. Now, at the same height, I am (not too proud to say) that I weigh 152 pounds, but I DO look much healthier than the skin and bones 103 pounds. I am trying to lose about 10 pounds this summer, but I am doing it the “right way” this time. I think you are incredibly courageous in the sense that you wrote about all of these taboo personal experiences, and I also think you were an adorable child, grown into a beautiful and intelligent woman.
Comment by Amber — June 9, 2010 @ 5:24 pm