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I Used To Subscribe To The Body Positivity Movement. Here’s Why I Don’t Anymore
I never looked like any of the girls I saw in magazines when I was a teenager. Where they were long and lean, I was usually thick and muscly. My eyebrows were swarthy, and my hair was frizzy. And to boot, I was always the shortest girl in my class.
By Gina Florio3 min read
While these differences might be very apparent to me today as an adult, it never bothered me as a teenager that the models and actresses I idolized had a different figure than I did. But that all changed when I first heard of body positivity.