Growing up I was very tiny. I had a very high metabolism which was the death of me. Very awkward and skinny in grade school, then into middle school. This is when pieces of me started to fly away. I was bullied and shamed about my body constantly. Hearing negative comments from fellow classmates and adults. I moved schools in the 8th grade because the bullying got that bad. Spent my high school years trying to gain weight. I was very active in sports so I was thin and in shape but just “too skinny” for everyone else’s liking. I spent my afternoons after school looking up what I could eat or do to gain weight. 

The older I got the comments got worse. People asking me if I was anorexic. Telling me to go eat a cheeseburger etc. Every single time someone would say something directly to me or behind my back another piece of me flies away. It blows my mind how much body image and confidence can be completely ruined by others words. Too skinny, too short, too fat, too tall… when will we accept ourselves the way we should? It is hard I know.