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All stories in: Love Your Body 2019 Profile

  • Franceta Johnson: artist, graphic designer and creative

    I’m a Black, queer, plus-size woman, standing at six-foot-four. I interned at Teen Vogue as a photo editor while attending a semester at Parsons School of...
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  • Tyler Lumb: barber and business owner

    Ever since I started developing as a kid, I had self-esteem issues. I only wore boys’ clothes when I was little. I would swim with...
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  • Shirzana Mitha: nurse, double lung transplant recipient

    I was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension in 2010 when I was 27. Before my diagnosis, I looked healthy, but I was constantly short of breath...
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  • Jack Larmet: artist, musician

    CONTENT WARNING: GRAPHIC DEPICTION OF SEXUAL ASSAULT About eight years ago, I woke up one morning with memories of being gang-raped more than 20 years...
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  • Danielle dEntremont: journalist

    One of my most vivid childhood memories is from when I was eight years old, standing naked in front of a mirror and thinking how...
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  • Mina Gerges: activist, social media influencer

    When I first reached internet viral fame, I was recovering from an eating disorder. I was posting pictures of myself recreating celebrity photos, and people...
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  • Melanie Chambers: travel writer, university instructor

    A few years ago, I posed naked for the first time for a life drawing class. It got me thinking about how I have such...
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  • Chantel Spaulding: fitness and health professional

    I’ve always been athletic. As a kid, I did gymnastics and played volleyball or basketball throughout my school years. And I would regularly lift weights...
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  • Anshuman Iddamsetty: writer and podcast producer

    I’m a short, fat, brown, bald man. You don’t see a lot of images of people who look like me outside of very specific corners...
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  • Sheila Dobson: speaker, artist, retired teacher

    I was a teacher with three kids and happily married – I had the perfect life. Then it was like a bomb went off: I...
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