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Chantelle Schmidt

Just Gonna Say It: Someone’s Body Size Is Not A Reflection Of How Healthy They Are

There’s a tired and extremely false narrative that’s still struggling to be rewritten, and it goes a little something like this: if you’re not a size six or have abs, you must be unhealthy. Associating body size with health is both insidious and backward. People who existed throughout the first dose of the heroin-chic era know just how far we’ve come — and just how far we have to go — when prioritising our well-being over looking a certain way to have currency in society, and, in particular, to be worthy of attraction. All of these reasons, but the last point in particular, is why Dan Hunjas
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