# @tayprinsen on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CNNn58nF1U2
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/9025145-tayprinsen-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/bed1482b7b.jpg
- **Posted:** 2021-04-03T17:52:25.000+00:00

## Caption

When you look at this picture, what do you see?⁣ 
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A few years ago, I would have only seen what was “wrong”. A stomach that’s not flat enough, thick thighs, arms that aren’t toned, etc.⁣
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I vividly remember being at a soccer camp in middle school and a girl making fun of me for being “chubby” - she thought I was asleep in my bunk bed. I was awake, and crying silently. 💔 It starts young for us women, doesn’t it? ⁣
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I remember being depressed in an unhealthy relationship in college and starving myself - sometimes eating only an apple and a latte a day - in hopes that would help me like myself and my life more. ⁣
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And I remember doing the years of gut wrenching work with counselors and reading dozens of books and listening to podcasts to reshape those beliefs to get to where I’m at today. ⁣🙏🏼
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So when I look at this today, I am happy to say that I see a beautiful woman. ⁣😌
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Someone who has endured deep pain in her short 27 years, and a body - a home - that has also endured. ⁣
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A body that has run a whole damn marathon and traveled the world and enjoys sex and lifts heavy weights and can swim and ski and MOVE.⁣ 🙌🏼
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A body that is NOT flawed. ⁣
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A stomach that is perfectly fine not being “flat”...what am I, a piece of fucking paper? ⁣😅
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Thighs that are able to squat 195 pounds. ⁣🦵🏼 #thickthighssavelives
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Arms that can carry my friend’s babies. ⁣👩🏼‍🍼
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When you look at yourself, do you show yourself the same love? I hope so! You are lovely, in no need to be changed or fixed, you are wonderfully made. You’re beautiful, babe. ❤️ 

📸 taken by ME! Ain’t that cool? 🤓

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