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Almost every image you see is altered in some way so that the person in it appears more attractive. Meanwhile the images you see of your own body are not altered.

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Things will get better. I wish I could tell you how or when, but that is something that it’s hard even for me. I’m not sure how things will turn, but I promise you that things will get better.

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What you don’t know is that my dress size changed and my skin ached and my body was exhausted from trying to be something I thought you wanted.

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Nobody gets to tell you how you feel, nobody gets to take away your emotions or experiences. Nobody gets to tell you how to heal or cope with any of the shit that you’ve been through. Just because you look a certain way or act a certain way, it doesn’t mean that there isn’t an entire person you keep hidden from the world.

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This is for skinny girls, who are not supposed to have body image issues, and dare not complain about their insecurities. This is for skinny girls who binge eat in the hope of finding their fullness.

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For all the criticisms of promoting unrealistic standards of beauty, how come no one ever harps on the Barbie line for promoting equally unrealistic standards of spending?

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These seeds were planted. Every time I was told that I “had a pretty face,” but I should lose weight, those seeds grew. All the times I was made to feel that my weight was a problem that needed to be solved, those seeds sprouted.

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You are the person who has made “fat” the worst thing someone can be. Not cruel, uncouth, unintelligent, ignorant, impolite. Just fat. That, according to you, is the bottom of the barrel.

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The fat-loss strategy that worked really well for me was to just give my body what it wanted, in the right amounts, at the right time.

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You’ve contemplated purchasing a merkin because they’re hilarious.