Life in the Fat Lane

Life in the Fat Lane by Bennett, Cherie. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780385740067.

Beauty pageant winner, homecoming queen--Lara has the world at her feet. Until she gets fat. Despite a strict diet and workout schedule, Lara is soon a nameless, faceless, 200-pound-plus teenage blimp. Shes desperate to get her to-die-for body back--and to find an explanation for her rapid weight gain. When shes diagnosed with a mysterious metabolic disorder that has no known cure, Lara fears shell spend the rest of her life trapped in a fat suit. Who will stand by her? Her image-conscious family? Her shallow friends? Her handsome boyfriend? Or will she be left alone in the land of the fat girls?