It is sometimes hard to explain to younger women what it was like growing up as a girl in the 1990s
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Congratulations to the Guardian for running this brave, brave piece... er, without mentioning their own Titanic review from 1998 which called her “too fleshy to be convincing”
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I thought Zennials had made real progress on body shaming, but belly shirts are back and teens are all talking about how to get ozempic, so yet another place we're backsliding.
The guy in question looked something like this. So he didn't fit the narrow range of body types on TV, including on children's shows.
(To be clear, I am much less fit but the same general build.)
I was physically active, going to ballet classes two times a week.
BMI wise I was in the lower part of "normal". What I had was curves and bigger boobs. And muscles.
The joys of going to a school in an upper middle class, white area.😐
That sport will definitely do it.
Figure skating, gymnastics, swimming, ballet… the list goes on.
*not great at all*