Meet the Cast
Virginia Shreves
Face It, I'm FatLet's take a look at Virginia's own description of her belly, shall we?I direct my eyes to my stomach. This'll be the first to go. I grab a fold of my tummy and squeeze. It hurts, b...
Dr. Phyllis Shreves
Here, Have Some CluelessnessOof, Virginia's mom. Let's look at what Anaïs has to say about her, shall we?"Let me guess. On your thirteenth birthday, Mom left It's Perfectly Normal on your bed with...
Byron Shreves
Golden Boy? Not So Much.Oh, Byron. Where do we even start? You were Virginia's hero; you were the Model Brewster Student every year; you're the guy Brie Newhart thinks is hot.You're also a rapist.H...
Mr. Shreves
Virginia's dad isn't as major a player in her story as her mom, but he's similarly clueless. Instead of a dedicated denier, though, he's more of a goofball kind of clueless. He wants Virginia to lo...
Anaïs Shreves
Anaïs is Virginia's older sister, a feminist who joined the Peace Corps and is in Burkina Faso, Africa to help provide medical assistance. She's so gorgeous people were always telling her she shou...
Froggy Welsh the Fourth
Froggy is Virginia's love interest, a budding graphic designer and trombone player with whom she makes out after school. Despite what Virginia thinks, Froggy's actually interested in her as somethi...
Shannon Iris Molloy-Newman
Shannon is Virginia's best—and for much of the book, only—friend, who moved to Walla Walla, Washington when her dad decided to write a book about onions. She's invites Virginia to visit her in...
Minor Characters
Brie NewhartOne of the popular girls, a.k.a. the Bri-girls, who wears purple boots from Paris and always wins the Model Brewster Student award. She's secretly suffering from an eating disorder.Brin...