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(Photo: Instagram / @bodyposipanda)When Megan Jayne Crabbe was 14, she was diagnosed with an [...]
Recently, Crabbe detoxed her closet of all clothes that don't fit or that serve a purpose to make her look smaller and feel uncomfortable. The last item of clothing she threw away was a pair of too-small Spanx that she says she would squeeze into whenever she had to wear a dress.
"I wish I could have realised that it was okay to just wear the damn dress and let my stomach be free!" she wrote. "I didn't need to look as toned as possible to deserve going out. I didn't need to live in fear of being caught at the wrong angle and someone seeing that *GASP* MOST TUMMIES ARE NOT COMPLETELY FLAT. And I seriously could have saved myself from so much dehydration."
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"Whatever body type you have when you're mentally free and at peace with food/exercise - that is your happy body. Whatever size or shape, including people who are just supposed to be thin."
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"Time to appreciate aaaall the jiggle, aaaall the squish, aaaall the jelly. Every. Last. Pound of it."
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"Me blowing flower petals over anyone who says that people shouldn't love their belly rolls."
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"On the left is me 2 1/2 years ago, just before I found body positivity, and on the right is me today. You'll probably notice the most obvious thing I've gained between these two pictures: weight. But there are so many other things I've gained as well.
I've gained mental freedom.
I've gained self love.
I've gained my life back after so many years of believing that I wasn't worthy of living it because of how my body looked."
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"There are so many spaces you can go to and be congratulated on weight loss. There are millions of diet plans, endless articles on getting the 'perfect' body, and countless images of the body type our culture teaches us we should all strive for. Those are the spaces I grew up around, and boy did I learn the lesson well. I learned how to lose weight, I learned how to hate my body, I learned that chasing thinness was the only way to be beautiful, and the only way to be happy. It's taken me a LONG time to unlearn those lessons. And I plan on showing as many people as I can that they can unlearn them too. Because honestly? We all deserve so much better than how we've been taught to see ourselves."
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"We have hated ourselves enough. We have tortured ourselves enough. We have starved and sweated and pressured ourselves in the pursuit of that perfect body enough. We have watched enough people die because they couldn't live in a body that they were made to believe wasn't good enough. I'm not trading in any more pieces of myself for an empty promise of happiness hiding in my bathroom scales. We deserve better. Let's take our happiness now, just as we are. No more self loathing. No more comparing ourselves to photoshopped ideals. No more believing in the lies. We've all been through enough."
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