Sucked In

It took me years of coaching bodies to understand that the real work was always in the mind. Sucked In explains why, tracing the decades of messaging, from SnackWells to Instagram, that convinced a generation our worth lived in inches lost. Michelle Konstantinovsky writes with humor and rage in equal measure, and what's left is genuinely healing.', Kendall Toole, fitness expert, former Peloton instructor, founder of NKO Club

'Michelle has been consistently calling out diet culture for over a decade. Her words are always cathartic and eye-opening, delivered with razor-sharp wit and bucketloads of research. This book will help so many women release their body shame and recognize there are forces far greater at play that have dictated how we see ourselves. A book that is (unfortunately) more necessary now than ever. Read it and tell every woman you know to read it.', Megan Jayne Crabbe, digital creator and author of Body Positive Power and We Don’t Make Ourselves Smaller Here

'Apparently, each new generation of American women needs its own heroines to call out the toxic cultural tropes that recycle themselves endlessly. Michelle Konstaninovsky is one of those millennial heroines. Her superpowers are unflinching honesty and wicked humor; her aim is the '90s-era diet culture that made women sick in body and mind; her warning arrives just in time, as the emaciated ideal makes a comeback and a new batch of women is sold the same old lies. Read and heed, ladies. Then go eat a delicious meal.', Robin Rinaldi, author of The Wild Oats Project and the forthcoming Know When to Run

'Even for a Gen X’er, Sucked In was a shocking, illuminating, and utterly entertaining trip back in time! The destructive cultural messaging that Konstantinovsky thoroughly examines sustained countless eating disorders in older folks like me as well. From SnackWells and Oprah’s wagon of fat to discussions of infertility and motherhood, I loved, remembered, and related to all of it.', Jackie Goldschneider, author of The Weight of Beautiful and former cast member of The Real Housewives of New Jersey

'One part history lesson, one part therapy session, many parts hilarious, Sucked In made me realize that perhaps the only thing worse than recovering from an eating disorder in the public eye in the ’90s (as I did) was to be a millennial privately developing one. Sucked In gives us a true sense of the innately hilarious and warp-speed mind of Konstantinovsky and raises the extraordinarily important question: Why are we so hyperfocused on women’s bodies and then constantly beating them down for it? Perhaps most vital, Konstantinovsky provides real tips for moving through and beyond the chains of our obsessed minds. While there may be no escape from the binds of societal messaging no matter which generation you fall in, she reminds us all that ‘there's no cut-off age for being worthy of a better, freer life.'', Elisa Donovan, actress from Clueless and Sabrina the Teenage Witch and author of Wake Me When You Leave

'Sucked In is a cultural autopsy of what happened to the generation of women raised on SnackWells, low-rise jeans, the relentless surveillance of female celebrities, and the early days of the internet. Konstantinovsky shows in horrifying detail what that stole from us and implanted within us. For a generation that learned to police its own bodies before puberty, the question is what we might become if we finally stopped.', Holly Whitaker, author of the New York Times bestseller Quit Like a Woman and coauthor of the forthcoming How to Be Lost (Card Deck) and How to Relapse

'Deeply reported and deeply felt, Michelle Konstantinovsky's absorbing account of the diet culture of the not-so-distant past illuminates the toxic images and behaviors that taught women and young girls to hate their bodies. Konstantinovsky offers vital advice for un-learning years of self-hatred and embracing self-acceptance. The lessons of Sucked In apply today, especially since we live in a time when body types continue to be policed and picked over and judged, on and off social media. We need this book, now more than ever.', Erin Carlson, culture and entertainment journalist, and author of I’ll Have What She’s Having, Queen Meryl, and No Crying in Baseball