At just twenty-three years old, Shauna Reid weighed 351 pounds. Spurred into action by the sight of her enormous white knickers billowing on the clothesline, she created the hugely successful blog “The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl.” Hiding behind her Lycra-clad, roly-poly alter-ego, her transformation from couch potato to svelte goddess began.

A memoir by insanely successful plus size model Crystal Renn was released earlier this month, and you can read an excerpt at ABC News.
Renn has discussed her struggles with weight, including eating disorders. The book, called “Hungry: A Young Model’s Story of Appetite, Ambition and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves,” details her journey from emaciated, unhealthy and miserable to curvy and happy size 12.
A recent article from Fox News detailed the horrific health complications Renn endured to stay thin: heart palpitations, excessive water retention, hair falling out and loss of …

When Wendy McClure, a 33-year-old children’s book editor from Chicago, creates a Web site to chronicle losing weight, she contemplates possible names for it. She rejects My Weight Loss Journey, Soon To Be Slender, My Body Journal and Funky Flesh, which she decides “has bad B.O. connotations,” before choosing Pound.