You've been hoodwinked. You've been bamboozled.--Malcolm X
We should be pissed. The image industry has forced upon us impossible, undesirable standards of beauty. We are Black women, dammit, and while other races may flow through our veins, we are originally of African descent. We daughters of Africa have been blessed with uniquely designed bodies that have been worshiped for millennia by men the world over--except during this, our twentieth century. Our curvaceous women's bodies became fat and ugly. We're struggling with this diet thing and beating ourselves up when we don't achieve the impossible goals that have been created for us. In the meantime, the rules are changing, slowly but surely. Let's not be obsessive in an unreasonable quest for the perfect body. Perfect by whose definition? Learn to love your body type, and your love will set you free.
I love my body just as it is.
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