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Losing weight was easier than shedding the shame
I endured years of hurtful fat-shaming comments. In the last couple of years, I dropped some weight, but there’s still work to do to heal
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The writer, pictured here working out in the gym.
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One Christmas I received a card at work. It was unsigned. The sender wrote that they had seen me recently and complimented me on the dress I had been wearing – and my pregnancy.
My excitement at getting a handwritten note turned into horror and shame. I wasn’t pregnant, just fat, a point that the sender wanted to make me conscious of.
