Status Updates From Misadventures of a Curvy Gi...

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“.... and hid myself someplace safe. Someplace invisible. Someplace where I hoped my body wouldn’t matter. I robbed myself of my own future because I was terrified of what people would think of me in the present.”

“You’re thinking right now that you don’t deserve it. That you don’t deserve to be chosen. And I’m not telling you to believe it or to feel like it... I’m only telling you to act like it,” she says. “Fake it ’til you make it, gorgeous. Act like you deserve to be loved, and I promise, everything else will work itself out.”

“Even just living your life is a radical act. That is body positivity.”

“Body positivity is about what you do. It’s about daring to live your life as you are—not fifty pounds from now, not six dress sizes from now. And there are going to be days when every bad feeling comes back for you again. When you feel all the messy, hopeless things you thought you were past feeling. Those are the days you do it anyway.”

Absolutely loving this so far — I’m on the verge of tears as the three are in the bar and Ben says his “don’t” to Ireland. The storyline, which I initially thought would frustrate me as it detoured from the amazing-written smut, has me fully entranced and falling in love with these characters. — off to keep reading!