![]() ![]() “ My Madder Fatter Diary was written after I’d had a child and I thought do I want my kid to see that? Do I want to share that? I thought, no.” But in Madder Fatter there was specific stuff about me and I thought do I want to put this out there?”īecoming a mother between the publication of the two volumes made the difference, she says. Oh, there were some crackers!-but I wasn’t going to share them. ![]() There was always stuff about other people I wouldn’t share-it would have made for a far better book, I’ll tell you now, because there were some great stories. “When I got to doing the second book, My Madder Fatter Diary, there was stuff I would never share. ![]() “I held back a lot in the diaries,” she says. “I know I seem like a chronic oversharer-and I am!” Earl laughs, but those two volumes don’t tell the whole story. The memoir, an alternately uproarious and heartbreaking account of Earl’s struggles with her mental health, weight and friendships and sex, covers her sixth form years between 19. Thanks to My Mad Fat Diary, we know the story of Earl’s life. “There’s me in tatty, sick-covered pyjamas, I’ve got no bra on!” she says laughing at the humiliation of having to meet the Dev Patel doctor in such disarray. At the time of the interview, Earl is, in her own words “dribbly tired” thanks to two sleepless nights spent catching her child’s vomit. ![]()
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