“Suck It In” by Kristen H. is extremely well written.  She talks about the time she traveled to France with her family and during a Christmas card photo shoot her mother told her to “suck it in.”  After that experience she lost a whole bunch of weight and how her mothers words circled her head everyday of her life.  In this passage she writes “Two years later, I had grown so that boys in my class called me “the twig.”  MY belly had vanished along with naiveté about what true beauty means to people.  I ate little and wore baggy shirts.  It was always “suck it in, suck it in, and suck it in “pounding in the back of my head, even among friends.”  I feel bad for Kristen that she had to go through this and experience the harshness of people.