My Mad Fat Diary

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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. Tom Bidwell, who was involved in the inception of the series two years ago, penned the vast majority of episodes. Saying that, series three was handled well by George Kay. The real life Rae Earl – on whose published diaries the show is based – also helped with six of the scripts, which adds an element of realism to the show. As it goes, Earl wrote my personal favourite episodes – It’s A Wonderful Rae parts one and two. To talk about their content would involve a few too many spoilers, though. The E4 comedy-drama series My Mad Fat Diary (2013–2015) was based on her books. Unlike the books, the series took place in the 1990s rather than the 1980s.

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Channel 4: My Mad Fat Diary - Explore Rae's Bedroom". Channel 4. Channel 4 . Retrieved 6 February 2014.Sharon Rooney as Rachel "Rae" Earl, a 16-year-old who has spent four months in a psychiatric hospital. She struggles to hide her mental health and body image problems from her new friends and finds it hard to fit in. As the show progresses, however, Rae discovers that the friends she deemed perfect and untouchable are struggling with insecurities of their own. Her counsellor, Dr Kester, the man who encourages her to write the diary from which these innermost thoughts are taken, tells her at one point: “You would be surprised what lengths people will go to not to face what’s real and painful inside them.” Tom Bidwell, the writer of the show, mentioned in April 2014 in an interview with the Chorley Guardian that MTV has commissioned him to work on an American remake of the show. [18] Awards and nominations [ edit ] Year Earl lives in the Australian city of Hobart and is married to Kevin Johnson. They have a son named Harry.

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Earl was born and raised in Stamford, Lincolnshire. She attended Stamford High School. She obtained a degree from Hull University and won the university's Philip Larkin literary prize in 1994.I understand that this is a real life diary, so I wasn't expecting a miraculous and complex plot. But that aside, the plot was next to nothing but the main character, Rae, pining over boys and constantly putting down her overweight body. There was little character development and no real closure or ending to the book. 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. When Earl was a teenager in the eighties, she didn’t have access to the mental health support that’s around today. If she had, she tells me, “I think I could have been happier and, I hate to say it, more successful in life generally, because a lot of my coping mechanisms weren’t always very healthy, they were necessary, but not healthy.” I still have challenging days and I still would have no hesitation in going to get the correct help for that” says Earl. She would and does urge her young readers to seek professional help if they feel they’re struggling: “I tell them ‘you’ve got to go and talk to somebody about this. Don’t be frightened, they’ve heard it all before and worse’. And they honestly will have done.”

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Al comienzo se me hizo una lectura bastante pesada, no podía conectar con la historia ni con Rae, a pesar de que empatizaba totalmente con ella. Además las entradas son, en su mayoría, cortas, y yo soy más predilecta a los capítulos largos. Pero, en la mitad del libro, me empezó a interesar más la trama con la aparición de un nuevo interés romántico.

It was emotional, but getting them published was far more emotional. The after-effects of that were very emotional, and I have to say, largely wonderful. I was still in touch with a lot of the people - my best friend then is my best friend now. There were lots of people I was still very, very close to. But there were some people I really hadn't spoken to for a long time, who I had to get in touch with and say "Look, this is what's happened, and you need to know that this is how I felt about you then." I have to say that largely, they've been wonderful, and embraced it with good humour and generosity. It's been a hell of an emotional journey. People will get in touch and say "I had no idea you were feeling like that, if I'd known I would have done this." Or people who you thought were so beautiful and sorted and had everything that you wanted felt exactly the same way. That's been the biggest revelation. The people we think have it all together probably feel as lousy as we do. No. What happened was they kind of petered out at University as I discovered having a life and sex. Then, because if the inflammatory and embarrassing nature of them, I pretty much carried them around with me everywhere. I didn't really look at them, though. Then, in 2001, I was doing a breakfast show on the radio with my husband, and I was cleaning out a room at home, and I was just about to bin them, honestly just about to, and my husband said "What are they?" And I said "These are my teenage diaries," and he said "Okay, we're going to read them out on air." So we did, every day. Obviously the radio version was highly sanitised, what you can read out at 8:10am is fairly limited. You've got to limit the amount of distressing mental illness or hardcore sex. But in the book, we could just go for it. So I didn't really look at them in the intervening period at all, but when it came to publishing them, I went through them and was delighted, horrified, a mixture of many emotions.

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OMG! Is This Actually My Life? Hattie Moore's Unbelievable Year! (2013) - Fictional diary of a teenage girl who lives in Derby. Also: general shaming. She hears a classmate purging in the bathroom stall and makes a horrible comment. Her only friend, Bethany, is constantly demeaned by her. I didn't sympathize with Rae. I sympathized with her mother for having to deal with her. Rae also releases a cage of her mother's "budgies" (parakeets) because she hates the idea of caged birds. Sophie Wright as Tix (series 1, 3), a resident of the psychiatric hospital and Rae's other best friend. In the series 2 opener, it is revealed that she had died due to over-exercising and refusing to eat at the end of the previous series. She makes a cameo appearance in the final episode of series 3 as Rae reflects on her teenage years and when Rae sees everyone in the reflection of the train window.I started reading this with high expectations. I haven't watched the tv series, but I normally love diary style books because they're usually full of humour and they're light reads for me. There will be spoilers in this review. In some parts of the book I did really seem to connect with Rae, like when Harry asked her out because he felt sorry for her and when Bethany was being a downright cow. I really felt sorry for Rae then, because it must have been tough, and I could actually imagine myself in her position. It's these parts of the book that made it difficult to put down.