Glennon Doyle Melton

Glennon Doyle Melton is the author of the memoir and the subject of the story. As a child, Melton learns destructive lessons about the rules that women must live by. She develops an eating disorder at a very young age. She uses food as a way to stuff down her loneliness and her perceived inability to fit in because of the way she looks. Her eating disorder causes her to be placed in a mental hospital for a time during her high school years. There, she feels safe and like she can finally be honest. When she is released from the hospital, however, she goes back to conforming to the rules for being popular with both the boys and the girls.

When Melton has sex for the first time, she feels very disconnected from the whole experience. She is never able to connect with men...