Dear Queenie,
I'm 11 years old. Why do I always get to be the shortest and skinniest girl? Why can’t I be like one of my friends in Guyana or like Sister Sister the show.
There was this boy and he told me that I am too skinny and that I need to go to the gym. It was the most embarrassing day of my life. It was very hard for me to turn my back and tell him the same thing.
Well, Queenie, what do I do? Please, I need your help. E-mail me back and tell me what should I do please.—Short girl
Dear Short girl,
You get to be short and skinny because that’s how some 11-year-olds are. You haven’t started to mature yet, and that’s as it should be. You can’t be like the girls on the TV show because those are teenage actresses playing the roles of girls much younger than they are.
The next time that boy teases you, tell him girls your age are supposed to be short and skinny and he should just wait a few years. I promise you, when you reach puberty and start to have a mature figure, that boy won’t be teasing you that way at all; he will probably be tagging after you begging you to notice him.
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