'Black women deserve to wear their bodies with pride.'
for it. It was like the people around me couldn't understand how I could be a Black girl and not have curves in all the right places. As a result, I wasted many years. I hoped a day would come that I would have a body white men would objectify and Black men would celebrate.
So, how did I learn to love my body as a Black girl? I deleted the images and ideas I had in my head about what a perfect body looks like. Who cares if I have hyperpigmentation and you can see my body has different tones when Imagazines? Every day I had a date with the mirror, looked long and hard at my body, and accepted that this is the only one I will get. Next, I decided to create my own standard for my body instead of aspiring to the standards created for me.
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