Chapter Twenty Seven through Chapter Twenty Nine Summary

Chapter Twenty Seven finds Ben landing in LA, and wandering around the city. JJ, meanwhile, is looking through the stack of pornographic material that fell from the cupboard, sickened to realize it is all pornography of heavy women. Looking at the women, JJ thinks "this used to be me", but she realizes this isn't true, because these women feel and look sexy, whereas the old Jemima always felt inferior. She thinks about her life now, and realizes she is the same person, and that men would possibly loved her before, had she been able to love herself. She also realize she is judged as quickly now as she used to be when she was heavy, only now she is seen as catty, or ignorant, or stuck up, because she is thin...