Body Shame and the Wisdom of Barbie

I’ve struggled with body image my whole life. I was never thin enough. Never tall enough. Never pretty enough. Never anything enough. When I look back at pictures of myself when I was young, I’m baffled by these thoughts because now I see myself as an attractive young woman. But all I felt back then was disgust for my body, so much so that I disconnected from it a long time ago.