Contributor

Rebecca Jane Weinstein

Lawyer, social worker, and writer. Author of "Fat Kids: Truth and Consequences", "Fat Sex: The Naked Truth", and "Ella's Tummy"

Rebecca Jane Weinstein is the author of three books on weight issues: "Fat Kids: Truth and Consequences", "Fat Sex: The Naked Truth", and "Ella's Tummy". She is also the founder of PeopleOfSize.com, an online community and social networking site which provides information, support, and interaction for "people of size." An attorney and social worker with a masters degree focusing on clinical therapy, Rebecca has been working as an advocate and writer for nearly twenty years. She is considered an expert on the subject matter of weight and culture. Rebecca shares her own experiences being a fat child, and now a fat adult, put on her first diet at age six. She understands the struggles that so many experience living in a world with a "war on fat."