I picked up a copy of Frank Bruni's autobiography, Born Round, and have read through maybe 75% of it.

I've noticed that he described his self in such a way that I expected him to look a lot bigger in the photos he included. Especially the one of him as an adolescent at a swim meet -- I couldn't see any love handles!

While he does appear to be on the heavy side at times (e.g. on the campaign trail), I wouldn't characterize him as being as overweight as I'd imagined him to be based on his own self-descriptions.

Has anyone else noticed this? I thought this might just be my opinion (although I am pretty tiny at a size 2 and grew up in thin-central Asia, so I do recognize that people tend to be heavier in the West than the East), or that he just might have viewed himself as being "bigger" because of his food issues.

Any thoughts?
The book has been a great read, so far, though!