Real talk on weight struggles, anxiety, and the path towards self-love and acceptance.

Bert Anderson
8 min readJan 21, 2020

Have you ever looked at your life and thought, “How did I end up here of all places?” I’m not talking about accomplishments or anything like that. I guess I’m talking about the big elephant in the room: weight. I have thought about and known that my weight wasn’t “right” since I was 10-years-old and went through puberty.

It was super fun to be the only girl in fourth grade with boobs and a period (said no one ever). Things evened out as they do when you get to that pre-teen/teenage…

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Bert Anderson

Stories from Bert Anderson have helped women across the globe through the Huffington Post, Today’s Parent, and on the Harry show.