The age of Abercrombie
In 2002, I was the type of elementary school kid who was keenly aware of and dependent on the transformative power of shapewear. I wasn’t even 10, but I knew that I didn’t look the way a girl was supposed to look — was I even a girl with a gut like this? I didn’t know. I did know that SlimFast made you dizzy, that Dr. Siegel’s famous Cookie Diet tasted like crap, and LeanSpa was a scam. I drank energy drinks marketed as meal replacements and developed a healthy fear of guarana. A bully whom I’ll neither forgive nor forget once described me as “a rolling sea of flesh waves,” and...
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