It’s been two years of ups and downs since I started White Girl With a Fat Ass. And as of late the ups and downs still keep coming, but it’s nice to have this tiny coded domain to come home to as a check-in. As a way to keep things in check.
On this my blog’s two year anniversary, I am going to re-share where the name came from.
Here is the story of how my blog got this name:
One of my first memories of New York City is getting up really early one morning to go be an extra for the worst indie movie of all time. At the time I lived in the back of a hair salon on 45th& 8th. That’s right a hair salon, the cool spinning chair, the big alien looking blow drier that comes over your head. As I walked through Time’s Square at 5 a.m. – I realized THIS was the worst time to be out. Because every body around me were not early risers, they were still up from the night before.
As I walked along, so hopeful in my New Life in the City. My hair freshly groomed with products stolen from my apartment/hair salon. I was in that total hat-throwing-I’m-gonna-make-it-after-all moment when from behind me I heard low faint chants.
‘white girl with a fat ass, white girl with a fat ass, white girl with a FAT ass’
What can only be described as a your classic 80’s movie drunken homeless wino, was following me chanting. And as I walked faster, hoping to God he wasn’t following me, my hurried movement only emphasized the jiggling momentum of said ASS and his chant reached a fevered pitch.
‘WHITE GIRL with a fat ass WHITE girl with a FAT ASS white girl WITH a FaaaTTTT ASSSSSSSS’
And no matter how fast I hauled my now infamous ass, I could not escape those words. I have continued to run but those words have followed me.
Two years later, White Girl With a Fat Ass has a whole new connotation. Sure, most of my hits still come from people surfing for porn. Sure, sometimes when I meet people for the first time and we have mutual friends I’m always taken aback to hear them proclaim, ‘Oh you’re that Fat Ass Girl’ Sure, now when I’m on a first date I think how fun for them when they inevitably google my name and find many hits that read: White Girl With a Fat Ass
But this blog has also raised over $3000 for hunger relief, produced two live events, got me to perform improv again, and lead to countless friends.
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