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Roxane Gay on getting weight reduction surgery

Member-only story What Fullness Is On getting weight reduction surgery Roxane Gay 20 min read · Apr 24, 2018 -- 77 Listen Share T he first weight-loss surgery was performed during the 10th century, on D. Sancho, the king of León, Spain. He was so fat that he lost his throne, so he was taken to Córdoba, where a doctor sewed his lips shut. Only able to drink through a straw, the former king lost enough weight after a time to return home and reclaim his kingdom. The notion that thinness — and the attempt to force the fat body toward a state of culturally mandated discipline — begets great rewards

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