“My diagnosis has very much challenged my relationship with my body. Mostly, I've found it hard to eliminate the nagging feeling that no matter how hard I advocate for others, no matter how often I share varied images of myself (fit, relaxed, sexy), I will always be viewed as gross or icky. It's silly, because instinctively, I know better, but culture degrades women for the simplest, most mundane, and irrelevant of things - so, knowing I have something that is viewed, across cultures and platforms as a sign of my undesirability means that convincing myself I am beautiful, sexy, and desirable takes a continuous, daily, unrelenting act of defiance.”