weight

My weight doesn’t make me something less, but something more: a beautiful woman.

I thought I had dealt with my body issues before I decided to do this shoot, but it turns out I was wrong.

I thought I had dealt with my body issues before I decided to do this shoot, but it turns out I was wrong.

Too often people claim that they are practicing Body Positivity when in fact they are perpetuating fatphobia and/or using healthism and ableism to justify sizeism.

So here I am in my “today” body.

If forgoing all the foods I once loved to eat; if the hours clocked walking, swimming, and biking isn't doing it for me anymore, what will?

If forgoing all the foods I once loved to eat; if the hours clocked walking, swimming, and biking isn't doing it for me anymore, what will?

When the spread was published, all the girls in the shot were small — small enough to notice their not-bigness. It was the first time I felt “othered,” the first time I noticed how some versions of thin weren’t thin enough.