The media taught us & the generations before us to drop dress sizes, no matter the cost, no matter how miserable, even if it isn’t healthy ❤️🩹 Eating only 800 cals of cookies every day isn’t going to give your body enough energy to dance, laugh, think or create… Eating a cube of cheese when you’re so hungry you feel like you could faint isn’t going to make you “happy”. Making a person feel bad about their weight or size is not “helping” them… But sadly, we weren’t taught to prioritise those things, like how to take care of our self-esteem, health or happiness. We were taught to put the way we look above all else. Luckily, what we’ve learned, we can unlearn too. And I think we owe it to ourselves & the generations to come to let go of these harmful ideals & learn how to truly care about ourselves instead ❤️🩹 I hope by shining a light on all of these messages we soak in subconsciously, we might be more aware of it when it happens & no longer let what they say hurt us 💫 More on my lG: breeelenehan 🫶 #socialmedia #bethechange #beautystandards #dietculture #dietculturedropout #magazinecover #rolemodel #media #bekindtoyourself #selfesteem #selfconfidence #selftalk