Bursting your bubble: body positivity is an inside job.⁠ ⁠ Can you believe after all this progress I've made and hard work I've put into looking like this... I am still nitpicking my photos? I stared long and hard at that top photo and wished I had FaceTune to fix my tummy area.⁠ ⁠ When I first looked at that photo, I only saw belly rolls. It's sad. To this day, I have to think my way out of old body concepts and remember they're not real.⁠ ⁠ It's not easy bc you know the drill: beauty standards are social constructs built by Big Beauty and implanted in our brains as little girls to become the consumers of tomorrow. Sadder still is we buy into this as normal and begin judging others by those same standards.⁠ ⁠ My bigger mental scars are not from the millions of ads I've been exposed to, but from the dance coaches, friends and even family who pointed out my belly rolls throughout my adolescence. Strange to think it's acceptable to point out these flaws in children, but once we come of a...