Sex influencer Nadia Bokody doesn’t want you to tell her she’s beautiful, and the reason why may surprise you.
My boyfriend is gawping at it, mouth agape.
If this all sounds awfully superficial, vapid even, that’s because it is. However, it’d be remiss not to point out we weren’t born to be this way. Our cultural obsession with female beauty is far more uncomfortably weighted in nurture, than nature. I went from an already lithe 57 kilos on my 165-centimetre-tall frame, down to a mere 48 kilos in the space of six months, punishing my body with daily 10-kilometre runs.
The inverse of this then, is radical self-acceptance, of “letting yourself go”, as we’ve disparagingly labelled women who gain weight, bare their wrinkles, and allow their grey hair to grow out. That while, intellectually, I realise “fat” should be no more a slur than being “a brown-eyed brunette” , I find myself struggling against the lifetime of conditioning that’s taught me to see it as the ultimate character flaw.
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