Shrinking Your Body Isn’t the Solution.
You can do whatever you want at any size.
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By the time I was seventeen, I had received so many messages on what it meant to be perfect.
Growing up, I always felt like I was being measured against an impossible standard of perfection. Perhaps well-meaning, many of the important people in my life told me what I should think and what I should look like. There was always some 'perfect' size body I was supposed to be working on attaining. I learned to look outside myself for answers, instead of looking inside, where the answers actually were.
“I am breaking free of the tether holding me back; ready to explore who I am and learning to have fun along the way!”
Martha Louise Treder
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I did not see the Mike Tyson ad that aired during the Super Bowl 2026 nor am I going to. I saw one clip from it and it is a downright dangerous message. To imply that living in a larger body is not a life worth living is so f*cking ableist. Instead of blaming ourselves and our bodies, let’s destroy the systems that perpetuate this stigma. I am in the largest body I have ever been in and I am living my best life. I moved to Portugal from Wisconsin in June 2025 and I love my life. I am creating a life I want in a body that mainstream society deems unacceptable. I will continue to prove them wrong every step of the way.