{"product":{"product_id":"0062362593","title":"Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body","price":"17.89","image_url":"https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41S4yvewK-L._SL500_.jpg","url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062362593"},"comments":[{"body":"Roxane Gay discusses gaining weight as a form of protection after sexualized trauma in her extremely beautiful book Hunger: A Memoir of (my) Body. TW for sexual assault even for reviews of the book. If you are up to reading it, I cannot recommend the book highly enough. It is a meditation on being fat as a woman, and she spends a lot of time on exactly this idea you are talking about, gaining weight as a form of protection/invisibility in a world of sexual violence. Here's a link to [a short review on the Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jul/30/hunger-by-roxane-gay-review-one-bodys-lessons-for-everybody) and [the book on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Hunger-Memoir-Body-Roxane-Gay/dp/0062362593). ","subreddit_name":"loseit","author":"LettuceNotForget"},{"body":"I have heard other sexual assault survivors say the exact same thing. In fact Roxane Gay mentions this quite a bit in this book: [https://www.amazon.com/Hunger-Memoir-Body-Roxane-Gay/dp/0062362593](https://www.amazon.com/Hunger-Memoir-Body-Roxane-Gay/dp/0062362593) you should take a look... and also see therapy.","subreddit_name":"confessions","author":"kingpirate"}]}