Maggie D
Maggie D
Sep 7, 2018 · 1 min read

Great read — I had the same thing happen when I was growing up. My mother never had a kind word to say about her own body, and any time she looked in the mirror, she would say something awful about herself. How she was fat, how she looked gross, how she needed to lose weight. I thought it was normal to hate your body because it wasn’t thin enough. This was during the 80s, when aerobics really took off, and women were expected to be itty bitty in order to be attractive. That stuff sinks in at such a young age and becomes so intrinsic to how you view yourself, that even at 42, I still think “everything” would be “better” if I could just lost five pounds.

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