Until now, everything had been going well for Candace Shapiro. Twenty-eight years old, too curvy but very charming and witty enough to have made it as a journalist. She had even come to accept that Dad would never come back, that Mom was in love with a woman, and that Lucy, her little sister, danced topless to make ends meet. But the day she discovered her sex life chronicled in detail in a major women's monthly, that day... everything went wrong. The person responsible for this delicate attention? Bruce, her ex, who, clearly, also made a living from his pen by confiding to all of America the details of his love affair with a "different" woman!

At first furious, Candace has a choice: sink into depression... or bounce back and prove right those who think that yes, you can be happy without having to lose weight!