Gain a little weight and hear about it from around the world...

Even Harnaaz Sandhu is subject to body-shaming

In some circumstances, it may be a turnoff to guys that we’re strong, but that’s the price we pay. We give up some things for others that mean more to us. It’s going to feel alot better when you’re winning a gold medal than it does feeling bad when one guy doesn’t like you because you have big muscles. So its a trade-off.

-Jessica, 20 Stanford U. swim team Girl Culture, Lauren Greenfield

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Maybe you aren’t preparing for gold medals, but you probably spend time working towards something that is important to you.

What is it?

What do you prioritize over looking the way someone else may want you to look?

It is so easy to say, “well if I just looked like ___”

Go ahead- fill it in. College athletes? Nope. As Jessica from Stanford says, she was too muscular for the guys she was around. A beauty pageant champion? Sure- how can being chosen Miss Universe, for example, not prove to at least planet Earth that you look great?