Why I Refuse to Suck it in with Shapewear Any Longer

September 19, 2016

“Suck it up, suck it in, let me begin,” is the mantra of most women who wear shapewear. We want our panty lines invisible, our cellulite smoothed, and our fat pushed into the recesses of our ankles where no one will see it. I have more shapewear than Carter has pills, as the old adage from the time when corsets were en vogue goes.…

Originally from NJ, Alyson lives in the Midwest but has kept her sarcastic cynical Jersey attitude. She has been described as the Andy Rooney of Stay-at-Home Moms. You can find her blogging about the many disasters and observations of her life at her successful adult humor site TheShitastrophy.com. She is the co-creator of the Amazon Bestselling anthology Surviving Mental Illness Through Humor. Alyson is also a contributor to the anthology My Other Ex: Women’s True Stories of Leaving and Losing Friends and the sequel I Still Just Want to Pee Alone. She has had works featured at Good Housekeeping, Scary Mommy, Huffington Post, Mamapedia, and others. Follow her on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Google +.