So This is What It's Like to be Ugly

Special Guest post by Aimee Byrd

So This is What It’s Like to Be Ugly

By Aimee Byrd, excerpted from Saving Face

“So this is what it’s like to be ugly.”

I said those words out loud. I was in the fourth or fifth grade when my best friend Kathy Derr—who is two years older than me—talked me into cutting my hair short with a rattail. It would be so cool! All the guys were showing off this new…