But imagine what it would be like to live in a culture where that feeling we had on the day we were born stayed the same all through our childhood and into adolescence, a culture that didn’t constantly reinforce the idea that a girl’s or woman’s body is supposed to be one specific shape and size, and if it’s not she must, at all costs, try to make it that shape and size. What if the shape we grew into was just accepted as the natural shape of our bodies, as lovable each new day as it was on the day we were born? What if the body we aged into—those of us lucky enough to grow old—was as
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