If you know me, you know two things to be true: I love shopping and fashion and I have lived with severe body dysmorphia and various eating disorders for the better part of my life.
No matter how much I love clothes and shopping, I simply couldn’t get past the mirror. Dressing myself became incredibly hard because I never knew if what I was seeing was fact or fiction – is this what I actually look like, or what my mind tells me I look like?
After a while, shopping for clothes became so stressful that I stopped altogether. Throughout the pandemic, I became “weight restored” (I really don’t love that term but we’ll use it for now) and then some.
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