Full of Myself: A Graphic Memoir About Body Image
By (Author) Siobhn Gallagher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Andrews McMeel Publishing
5th June 2024
23rd May 2024
United States
General
Fiction
Coping with / advice about eating disorders
Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: styles / traditions
741.5
Paperback
336
Width 152mm, Height 229mm, Spine 20mm
782g
Author and illustrator Siobhn Gallaghers humorous and heartfelt graphic memoir details her journey from being the anxious and unhappy funny fat friend to learning to love herself along with all her imperfections.
Im proud of the person Ive become because I fought to become her. At the age of 30, Siobhn Gallagher looks back on her teenage self: struggling with anxiety and eating disorders, desperate to become a beautiful, savvy, and slim adult. As an actual adult, she realizes she hasnt turned out the way shed imagined, but through the hard work of self-reflectioncut with plenty of humorGallagher brings readers along on her journey to self-acceptance and self-love.
Through witty comics and striking illustrations, Full of Myself is a highly relatable story of the awkward, imperfect, and hilariously honest teenage best friend readers will wish they had hadand the awkward, imperfect, and hilariously honest woman she becomes.
Siobhn Gallagher is an illustrator and designer living in Kansas City. She has illustrated books by Chelsea Clinton, Mayim Bialik, and for Penguin Classics. In addition, her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Elle Canada, and Huffington Post.