REVIEW: Full of Myself: A Graphic Memoir About Body Image (graphic novel memoir) by Siobhán Gallagher

Full of Myself is a graphic novel memoir. I bought my copy new.

Review:

Gallagher looks at her childhood, teens years, twenties, and beyond, writing about her struggles with internalized fatphobia, her insecurities, and more. She starts off convinced that if she gets good grades and gets a job in New York, she'll end up with a boyfriend and live happily ever after, but happiness isn't as easy as checking a few boxes, and life doesn't always turn out the way you think it will or should. This deals with depression, cutting, loneliness, disordered eating, body dysmorphia, drinking, etc.

There's not really a lot here about how Gallagher stopped cutting and bingeing and purging - those things just sort of faded from the narrative. Body image issues and how she tried to deal with them got more detail - positive affirmations, following body positive accounts, etc. She reads her childhood diaries and has a sort of dialogue with her past selves.

Overall, this was okay. It read a bit like a much longer, less in-your-face self-harming version of My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness.