My Mad Fat Diary

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Everything except Bethany. I can't imagine letting someone treat me like that. I can be as rude to myself as I want but I would never accept someone else treating me like that. Rae's feelings towards her group of friends fluctuate throughout the series. As individual ties with each member change, Rae is forced to evaluate her sense of self and the reasons she has for being a part of the group. Rae sometimes thinks she only hangs out with them becuase she is desperate to meet "cool people". Becoming a mother between the publication of the two volumes made the difference, she says. “ My Madder Fatter Diary was written after I’d had a child and I thought do I want my kid to see that? Do I want to share that? I thought, no.” Rae initially has a crush on Archie; from the moment she sees him, she can't stop thinking about him. In Episode 2, Archie asks Rae on a date and they kiss, but it is later revealed that Archie is gay. For the remainder of the series, Rae and Archie are close friends and nothing romantic happens between them. Drama - Mind Media Awards 2016 Winner". Mind. Archived from the original on 28 September 2017 . Retrieved 5 October 2019.

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As an outsider looking in, My Mad Fat Diary never appeared to be selling what I wanted to buy. Bowing to the logic that anyone who zanily declares ‘I’m mad, me!’ in real life deserves to be given a wide berth, its big, fat gypsy-wedding-alike title didn’t appeal. Earl's style is enjoyable and I found myself amused often by both her humor and the ridiculous situations she has gotten herself into. Reading her memories I felt a bit like a was a teenager again, with all the problems and agonies I had, with the diaries I wrote (which are, unfortunately, not as funny as Rae's). I certainly wasn't bored reading this book, I just expected more from it. But that's it, isn't it? My expectations got the better of me again.The lebsophobia was also ridiculously intense. Again, certainly reflective of the times, but not something I care to relive.

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I really liked the diary layout of the book, but I found the writing basic and non descriptive sometimes. Para empezar, yo era consciente de que iba a leer un diario de una adolescente de 17 años, pero ha llegado un punto en el que me ha cansado bastante. SPOILERS: Esta chica tiene una obsesión grave con el peso lo cual lo entiendo perfectamente porque toda su vida ha tenido que aguantar insultos de todo el mundo, sólo por estar gorda, cuando a la gente le debería importar un carajo el peso de cada persona. Esto me puso de los nervios, aunque sé que así es la vida real, ya que lo he vivido y lo he visto. Por otro lado, esta chica también tiene una gran obsesión por encontrar novio. Sé que todo el mundo en su adolescencia se obsesiona un poco con esto, pero esta chica ya se pasaba xD. Es una pena, porque los adolescentes no aprenden a que NO TODO ES TENER PAREJA. Hay cosas mejores. I didn’t like the end. At all. Throughout the diary Rae waffled between wanting to lose weight so boys would like her and wanting to find a boy who liked her for who she was. I personally thought she trended more toward the latter more often than not. So when the ending came and the boy she was mega-crushing on basically says if you weren’t fat we’d totally be together, and she gets all swoony, I’m like WTF? This type of thing irritated her to no end throughout the book but have the same words come out of the mouth of the boy she’s mooning over and somehow he has a point? I really didn’t like that. After school I went to Hull University to study English Literature – which I LOVED. At that point the government actually still gave you money to study – so I GOT PAID to READ BOOKS for 3 years. I then worked in radio for 15 years. Firstly as the person who makes the adverts (all those annoying jingles that stay in your head for DAYS – that’s me!) Secondly as a breakfast presenter. I got to interview lots of famous boy bands and once nearly broke Cheryl Cole’s chair on stage. We don’t talk about that. I got in trouble. I’ve always written things but most of them were actually slightly rubbish. Or they were about people and I never wanted them to see it. I don’t think I was any good at writing till I was 35 and that was after a lot of practice. Combine that with the societal male gaze, that shows women in such a plain sexual way that other women learn to perceive them (and themselves) as sexual things, but leads guys to think it's gay to look at other men in a casually sexual way, and you soon have teenage girls like Rae Earl. But it's hard to understand all that when you're 16, it's the late 80s, you live in a small town social justice is not part of anyone's vocabulary, not around you. I wish adult Rae had footnoted those bits. On the other hand, it may feel intrusive, preachy or like an after school special. All in all, this makes the book not something you'll necessarily want to give your teenaged lesbian daughter, however mad or fat they are otherwise.Sharon Rooney flashes a brilliant smile and shouts a cheery hello while rifling through a clothes rail in a photographic studio. There is something immediately brighter, more luminous, about Rooney than the troubled teenager, Rae, she plays in E4’s cult comedy drama My Mad Fat Diary. Rae has problems with depression and is hung-up about her weight, but Rooney is comfortable in her own skin. Nico Mirallegro as Finley "Finn" Nelson, a boy whom Rae clashes with at first, but who later becomes her main love interest. Rae begins the series with her release from a psychiatric ward. She is immediately presented as a psychologically damaged, emotional 16-year-old with normal aspirations and desires. Her weight is automatically highlighted from the start of the series. Throughout Series 1, Rae struggles with her weight. It becomes clear that she has suffered from a range of psychological problems that result in her binging unhealthily; she sees a counselor, Kester, throughout the series, who gradually helps Rae open up about her past and her problems. With his help, she is able to integrate herself into Chloe's group of friends, but not without struggle. Her main friends (and sometimes enemies) throughout the series include Archie, Chop, Finn, Izzy, and Chloe. Stop eating Wagon Wheels, they're not the solution. Give yourself a break, spend more time with your friends, keep writing stuff down, and everything you think matters doesn't really matter. Yes, Teen Rae. Why are you fat? But you know, that question is irrelevant. That's like asking someone why the sky is blue. Answerless.

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La verdad me fue muy extraño leer el diario de alguien, sinceramente me aburría y además como es un diario no teníamos tanta información más que el punto de vista de la protagonista, horas o quizás días después de que hubieran pasado en realidad los hechos. I'd originally started keeping a diary in the early 80s after seeing Ghostbusters, because I was so excited, but then I gave it up after about a year, and burnt it a few years later because it was full of nonsense. Then I started a diary in January 1989, principally because I needed to rant to somebody, I needed something I could confide in completely confidentially - despite hiding it in the most obvious place in the world, under my bed. I was convinced my mum would never think of looking there! I just needed something to talk to every night that was just mine.Despite Rae’s constant search for a father figure, it’s actually her mum who takes the brunt of her bad days. Claire Rushbrook plays Rae’s mum (real name Linda) as a terrifically fun and three-dimensional character. Linda can beat Rae’s one-liners any day, but she’s also a hugely emotional woman, who sometimes struggles to support Rae. Again, it’s a relationship that feels real, and the chemistry between the actors involved plays a large part in that. The full list of winners at the Mind Media Awards 2014". Mind. Archived from the original on 30 July 2019 . Retrieved 5 October 2019.

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You decided to go down the route of publishing them. What did you do in the way of editing them first? Siempre dicen que los libros son mejores que las películas (en este caso la serie TV). Pero aquí no es el caso, el libro se torna aburrido y repetitivo en muchos momentos. I have to say, it's the most bizarre, wonderful experience you could possibly have, watching something like that. I think the team at Tiger Aspect have done such a fantastic job, I think Tom Bidwell, who wrote it, has made something wonderful from it. I love what he's done. Rooney’s performance in My Mad Fat Diary is nothing short of a revelation. If you like one-liner put-downs, self-deprecating humour and/or ridiculous facial expressions, you’ll love the character of Rae Earl. I’m confident that, if you’re a lover of great comedy, she’ll make you laugh a few times in the pilot episode alone. And it only gets better from there onwards. In saying that, it was a particularly interesting read. Especially from the POV of someone so constantly bullied & harassed that she expected it, and made comments like "only one person had a go tonight". It's truly heartbreaking.Set in Stamford, Lincolnshire in the mid-1990s, My Mad Fat Diary follows the story of 16-year-old, 16 stone (106 kg) (233 lb) girl, Rae Earl, who has just left a psychiatric hospital, where she has spent four months. [4] She begins to reconnect with her best friend, Chloe, who is unaware of Rae's mental health and body image problems, believing she has been in France for the past four months. Rae attempts to keep this information from her while also trying to impress Chloe's friends Finn, Archie, Izzy and Chop. [5] Cast and characters [ edit ] Main cast [ edit ]