negative body image
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thanks to society she learned to hate her body
"youre skinny"
you must be anorexic
oh youre not okay heres an extra burger you need it honey
your hairs not perfect
you must not care what you look like
sometimes i find
i want to press myself in a book like a flower
to flatten my spine so my shoulders can be higher
but if my body wasn’t fragile
They always told me no one would love me beause i was big.
I never said a word of disagrement because they were right.
I watched as my friends threw up their meals saying, If you want to be pretty then don't eat