[Applause] How does it feel to hear that your body was not designed for aesthetics. It doesn't care if you lose the last 10 lbs and keep it off. If you can fit back into your pre-preg jeans, or if you even feel confident in your body at all.To many of us, this might feel pretty disappointing because who hasn't wanted to change or tweak something about their body before. You know, I once knew a 12-year-old girl who thought the size of her body was such a problem that she would spend all of her time looking a ...

[Music] I felt out of control lying on the bathroom floor at 23 years old, tears running down my face after consuming 40 laxatives in a single day. As a dancer living on my own for the first time, my thoughts and memories constantly haunted me. This journey started when I was 7 years old when my dance teacher gently patted me on my belly and said, "Lay off the cookies." Her words struck my spirit like a bullet.But that was the day my tumultuous lovehate relationship with my body began. My freshman year of h ...