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“One question from my best friend did more for my relationship with my body than any amount of dieting or therapy ever could.”

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Your legs, they hold you up. Your arms, they hold others close.

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I don’t want to but
I imagine my body as the sunken,
greying impression left on your mattress.

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The biggest problem here is that when you hear so much about what you look like, it soon becomes the only thing you know about yourself.

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It is easy to accept fat in this country because the culture ultimately makes it possible, even when it ironically makes it undesirable.

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I do not wish to make my body the battleground of society’s unrealistic ideals or its imprudent psychologies.