"Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels", a damaging quote spoken by Kate Moss (which she later retracted), were the words I looked up to some several years ago.

This was a quote I thought I had to live by at a time when I was being told by modelling agencies "to be a successful model you'll need to lose weight off of your hips" and "you're out of proportion". I think back to this time and the words bore me because I now know that the size of my body does not control my potential in this world.

Yet at the time, I would have done anything to become a successful model because I thought I was different. I thought I could control how I lost weight and not become overly obsessed or out of control, but I was wrong.

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