One piece of advice I noticed myself constantly hearing, and constantly repeating in my adulthood was something along the lines of “You have to fix that within yourself, no one can do that for you.” It’s funny because there was quite a gap between me repeating this and me living this.
As a woman navigating the beauty standards of the West, let me tell you: I’ve endured far too many miserable days squeezing into tight shapewear, whether it be jeans, leggings, or shape shorts, all in the name of vanity. Well, I’ve given all that up with a literal sigh of relief—I can finally breathe again.
