My Mad Fat Diary

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I am seriously baffled because never in my life have I liked a tv show/movie better than the book version. But that's most probably only because I'm a book snob or something. Hay cosas que se han quedado en el aire y no sé si lo que sale en la serie es información verdadera que sucede después de que Rae terminara el año 1989 o se lo inventan totalmente. ¡La autora debería haber dicho algo! I never watched the series, so when I saw that it was originally a memoir...y'all know I jumped on it. Rae Earl is utterly hilarious, among poignant, unabashed, and a truly wonderful writer. As she catalogs one of her high school years, she shares with us all the taunts, gossip, and mayhem that surrounds her in both her private life and public life. She attends secret raves, cheers failed diets, and gets utterly pissed at the pubs.

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No. What happened was they kind of petered out at University as I discovered having a life and sex. Then, because if the inflammatory and embarrassing nature of them, I pretty much carried them around with me everywhere. I didn't really look at them, though. Then, in 2001, I was doing a breakfast show on the radio with my husband, and I was cleaning out a room at home, and I was just about to bin them, honestly just about to, and my husband said "What are they?" And I said "These are my teenage diaries," and he said "Okay, we're going to read them out on air." So we did, every day. Obviously the radio version was highly sanitised, what you can read out at 8:10am is fairly limited. You've got to limit the amount of distressing mental illness or hardcore sex. But in the book, we could just go for it. So I didn't really look at them in the intervening period at all, but when it came to publishing them, I went through them and was delighted, horrified, a mixture of many emotions. Combine that with the societal male gaze, that shows women in such a plain sexual way that other women learn to perceive them (and themselves) as sexual things, but leads guys to think it's gay to look at other men in a casually sexual way, and you soon have teenage girls like Rae Earl. But it's hard to understand all that when you're 16, it's the late 80s, you live in a small town social justice is not part of anyone's vocabulary, not around you. I wish adult Rae had footnoted those bits. On the other hand, it may feel intrusive, preachy or like an after school special. All in all, this makes the book not something you'll necessarily want to give your teenaged lesbian daughter, however mad or fat they are otherwise. My Mad Fat Diary is a British teen comedy-drama television series that debuted on E4 on 14 January 2013. It is based on the novel My Fat, Mad Teenage Diary by Rae Earl. [1] The E4 comedy-drama series My Mad Fat Diary (2013–2015) was based on her books. Unlike the books, the series took place in the 1990s rather than the 1980s.The show also received praise for its honest portrayal of mental health. Brian Semple of The Independent calls the show "surprisingly honest, funny and even moving account of what it’s like for a teenage girl to live with serious mental health problems, free of many of the clichés that often inform how mental illness is portrayed on TV," going on to say that Rae "has a mental illness, but it doesn't define her. It's just something that she has to deal with and try to manage on a daily basis, just like the one in ten young people in the UK who have a mental illness." Semple refers to My Mad Fat Diary as a "breath of fresh air and will do a lot to change the way young people think about mental health." [12] The mental health charity Mind honoured the show in their annual Media Awards in the Drama category in 2014 [13] and 2016. [14] [15] Full of teenage logic, bad poetry and 80s nostalgia, Rae's frank and hilarious trip down memory lane stands out from the current surge of memoirs' ( The London Paper) Despite Rae’s constant search for a father figure, it’s actually her mum who takes the brunt of her bad days. Claire Rushbrook plays Rae’s mum (real name Linda) as a terrifically fun and three-dimensional character. Linda can beat Rae’s one-liners any day, but she’s also a hugely emotional woman, who sometimes struggles to support Rae. Again, it’s a relationship that feels real, and the chemistry between the actors involved plays a large part in that. I come from Stamford in Lincolnshire. It’s where a lot of TV and films are shot because it hasn’t changed much in 500 years. My childhood was like most people’s – a mixture of lovely and very odd. Lovely because I spent a lot of time with good friends, music and tadpoles. Odd because I spent a lot of time worrying about everything – like war, murderers and poisonous mushrooms (don’t ask). I was a bit weird. Like we all are. Rooney says size has never bothered her. “I’ve always looked the same. I’ve just been bigger. It’s never been an issue, but I can see why in this industry it can be a nightmare. I think this show is helpful – Finn [Rae’s boyfriend] is not with her solely for the way she looks; he’s with her because she’s cool. People need to remember it’s not all about what size your clothes are – or what label. If I was a size 10 I would wake up and my gran still wouldn’t be here. My friend wouldn’t be here. I’d still have bills to pay. It wouldn’t make my life any better. I’d still have the same issues.” Is there pressure to change? “No. I have always known I wouldn’t play Cinderella,” she says, blithely. “I would play the fairy godmother or the ugly sister.” She smiles. “Even if I changed, I don’t think my personality would.”

Sharon Rooney: ‘I’ve always looked the same. It’s never been

Bamshad Abedi-Amin as Karim Bouchtat, the Tunisian undocumented immigrant boyfriend, and later husband, of Rae's mum.

Also: general shaming. She hears a classmate purging in the bathroom stall and makes a horrible comment. Her only friend, Bethany, is constantly demeaned by her. I didn't sympathize with Rae. I sympathized with her mother for having to deal with her. Rae also releases a cage of her mother's "budgies" (parakeets) because she hates the idea of caged birds. Everything except Bethany. I can't imagine letting someone treat me like that. I can be as rude to myself as I want but I would never accept someone else treating me like that. Earl lives in the Australian city of Hobart and is married to Kevin Johnson. They have a son named Harry. Although the gang plays a part in the more emotional side of the show (particularly Rae’s at-points-dwindling friendship with Chloe and her mega-crush on Finn), the core to the show’s emotional resonance is Rae’s search for a father figure. Para empezar, yo era consciente de que iba a leer un diario de una adolescente de 17 años, pero ha llegado un punto en el que me ha cansado bastante. SPOILERS: Esta chica tiene una obsesión grave con el peso lo cual lo entiendo perfectamente porque toda su vida ha tenido que aguantar insultos de todo el mundo, sólo por estar gorda, cuando a la gente le debería importar un carajo el peso de cada persona. Esto me puso de los nervios, aunque sé que así es la vida real, ya que lo he vivido y lo he visto. Por otro lado, esta chica también tiene una gran obsesión por encontrar novio. Sé que todo el mundo en su adolescencia se obsesiona un poco con esto, pero esta chica ya se pasaba xD. Es una pena, porque los adolescentes no aprenden a que NO TODO ES TENER PAREJA. Hay cosas mejores.

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After three series and sixteen episodes, My Mad Fat Diary broadcast its final episode on 6 July 2015. My Mad Fat diary is ending this summer". Independent.co.uk. 2 February 2015. Archived from the original on 18 June 2022. I give this 4/5 stars, because I was not happy with the end! Not at all! But, like I said, it’s a diary. Things end, and there’s new beginnings. Sharon Rooney as Rachel "Rae" Earl, a 16-year-old who has spent four months in a psychiatric hospital. She struggles to hide her mental health and body image problems from her new friends and finds it hard to fit in. Drama - Mind Media Awards 2016 Winner". Mind. Archived from the original on 28 September 2017 . Retrieved 5 October 2019.Does Earl find a sort of instant intimacy from readers who get in touch with her because of the personal nature of her books? “Yes, because it’s always about identification. I think if you’ve have that sort of miserable adolescence, you are really looking, probably all your life, for somebody to say ‘I felt that way too!’ because we see everybody having a great time at proms and things and for a lot of us, it’s just not like that.” Siempre dicen que los libros son mejores que las películas (en este caso la serie TV). Pero aquí no es el caso, el libro se torna aburrido y repetitivo en muchos momentos. With the downs come the ups, as well, and My Mat Fat Diary does well to show the integral importance of reaching out to people and searching for help when it seems like the world is against you. For a perceived ‘teen’ show, My Mad Fat Diary is incredibly mature, and handles these issues head-on.

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Earl is incredibly good value for money. Somehow during our chat, there’s even time for me to say hello to her husband, her mum, and very nearly, a doctor who’s the spit of Dev Patel in Lion currently making a house call to her poorly child. It started off well, but then it just went slowly downhill. The same things seemed to happen over and over again and I found myself wondering when something was actually going to happen. All Rae seemed to complain about was her weight, not being able to get a boyfriend and her mum. It really irritated me that she kept complaining about not being able to get a boyfriend due to her weight, but then not doing anything about it. Duly, today’s young people have it tougher than she ever did, says Earl. “I think it’s harder to be thirteen now than when I was thirteen, I truly do. They grow up in a much harder world than we ever did. All this talk of ‘wet millennials’ and that nonsense is really frustrating to me. In the book, Millie’s wise, her mum’s wise, granddad’s wise… That’s kind of what I wanted to bring through. No generation has the monopoly on wisdom.”Bethany is going out with Battered Sausage. She told me tonight. I was due to be staying at hers and it was too late to go home. She has been a total, total cow. She is now covered in yoghurt because she says it helps with her spots. You'll need to raid the European dairy mountain with your zits, bitch." Kirsty Armstrong as Lois (series 2–3), a sweet girl in Stacey's clique. She is revealed to be Archie's "girlfriend". After Rae "outs" Archie to Lois, she threatens to tell her friends that Archie is gay if he doesn't tell everyone first. I really liked the diary layout of the book, but I found the writing basic and non descriptive sometimes.