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According to McCarthy, tearing women down is just “a bad habit that we’ve gotten into. And it’s not that people are malicious, I just think it’s so easy to take a swipe.” But she used patience and understanding to make at least one critic think about it all a little differently.

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Curves imply arcs, parts of the body that wave in and out—not rolls of excess fat and skin, sagging over the bones it’s meant to be covering.

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“Girls see enough of this body that we can’t imitate, that we’ll never be able to obtain, these unrealistic expectations…it’s better to look strong and healthy.”

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There seems to be a lack of actresses who enjoy eating cheeseburgers but don’t enjoy acting a fool.

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During my freshman year of college, I could fit into a friend’s size 0 pants. I was exactly the size we tell pretty women to be. When a woman is good-looking, we tell her that she could model. She could be a zero, just like me.

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3. What 9/11 is.

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When women are in the picture, it’s Scarlett Johansson showing her butt or Natalie Portman standing off to the side, wind in her hair. They are props and accessories, rather than the pole that holds up the tent itself.

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4. She knows the proper way to eat Ranch Dressing.