So freaking AWESOME!!!!!

she should be happy to get a letter from dan savage. plus you izz phat n all dat B.

Nice!

That's badass, baby.

It's too bad she says sexual "preference" instead of "orientation" at the end. But it's a great, brave piece. Well done. Dan would wonder about her muffin top.

I'd love to see a picture of the letter writer. I'm sure he's total perfection.

Brava. Bravissima. (I'm still going to laugh when Stephen Colbert quips that Chris Christie qualifies as Hispanic because he is at least 50% nacho, but that's because Christie's a dick, not because he's fat.)

Good for her and all the kids who are buoyed by her words, and it's great that her station management seems to be standing behind her.

But let's hope that she's still there in front of the cameras, if that's what she wants, in two years or five years or whatever, because TV news is such a bastion of Barbie and Ken clones. Whether it's facial proportions or weight or age that is the basis for judgment, even the most talented reporters usually get the ax long before they should.

Deviations from the established norm are tolerated and even celebrated if they are perceived to be caused by disease or disaster, as was the case with the warm and wonderful Kathi Goertzen (Bree Walker is another example). But woe is you if people think you've failed to exercise sufficient self-restraint or to endure sufficient cosmetic surgery.

Maybe it would be better if CGI replaced all the flesh-and-blood onscreen personalities with the idealized faces we seem to prefer, returning the emphasis to brilliant writing and shoe-leather fact collecting.

Also, long live public radio.

Fun Fact: Jennifer Livingston is actor Ron Livingston's (Office Space, Band of Brothers, etc) sister.

That is all.

@10 cool family! I love me some Ron Livingston.

Handled with class & poise. Well-done, ma'am.

I am in love with this woman, find her incredibly attractive and sexy. This is a REAL woman. Right-FUCKING-on !!!!

I do like this, really I do. What I would like even more is if she'd said "Yes, I'm fat...what's your point? You know nothing about my health or my life off-camera, so don't make assumptions. You do know that I am a confident, articulate, well-educated, successful woman--you could get that from even your brief look at my work. And you're saying that I'm not a good role model for children? Bullshit."