"What had been happening is, since Ive been losing weight over the past year, people have been saying, Congratulations on your weight loss! It doesnt rock me. It just annoys me because Im just like, dont congratulate me on that. If youre going to congratulate me on my weight loss, also congratulate me every time I pee. Congratulate me every time Im burping. Because my body actually has nothing to do with you, and I dont really need your support for it. It seems ill-placed. I dont need your support. Thats weird to me because my body will always be my body and always had been, and you have nothing to do with it and youre kind of a stranger. But the way it works is that this is just my body. In the same way that this is just my face, this is just mine.
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We All Need To Hear Gabby Sidibe's Advice To Her Younger Self - Refinery29
