The Skinny
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“Everyone had a clearer vision of my body than I did. It didn’t feel as if my body was really mine...” At age fourteen, Jonathan Wells weighs just sixty-seven pounds, triggering a scrutinizing persecution of his body that will follow him into adulthood.
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“Everyone had a clearer vision of my body than I did. It didn’t feel as if my body was really mine...” At age fourteen, Jonathan Wells weighs just sixty-seven pounds, triggering a scrutinizing persecution of his body that will follow him into adulthood.
Upstate New York in the 1970s: A boy in preparatory day school suffers a harrowing attack by a teacher offended by his failure to put on weight. For the first time in his young life, Jonathan Wells is fo...






















