Design*Sponge founder Grace Bonney knows what it’s like to strive for someone else’s idea of perfection. For a long time she tried to be the person she felt the niche design blog world wanted her to be: thin, straight, flawless — basically, an Anthropologie rack come to life. Then she turned 30 and realized that, in fact, she needed to be herself.

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For a long time, comedian Karolena Theresa thought a perfect body was something she should strive for. But eventually that mindset started interfering with all the other things she cared about, like performing, napping, and rocking bikinis. So she had to call it quits with bad body image.

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Relationship expert Tracy McMillan faced the toughest break-up of her life when her son turned 18 and went away to college. She’d overcome her own difficult childhood and vowed to be the best parent she could be—and that, she realized, meant sending her son off to college to start is own life's journey.

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Arianna Margulis got dumped in the middle of Central Park. By a guy who claimed she “interfered with his meditation schedule.” (Really? Really.) Luckily for all of us, Arianna channeled her hurt into the hilariously relatable Instagram cartoon @butlikemaybe and lived to tell the tale.

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Sometimes, the best beginnings start with an ending. Reese Witherspoon and Hello Sunshine bring you this warm and funny show - My Best Break-Up - hosted by the charming Maeve Higgins and featuring a different break-up story each week. You will fall in love with our guests, as they describe how their break-ups transformed their lives. Leaving a relationship, dumping your dentist,suddenly becoming an empty nester or even stepping back from your religion, we want to know where that break-up took you. Share YOUR story with us #MyBestBreakUp.

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