#DitchTheDiet2017

We’ve criminalized fat for so long that we’ve all but forgotten that fat is not just helpful, but necessary.

I want to establish for you, that this wasn’t a moment of “weakness.” The choice to eat something, is a choice, not a personality flaw.

I thought I had dealt with my body issues before I decided to do this shoot, but it turns out I was wrong.

I thought I had dealt with my body issues before I decided to do this shoot, but it turns out I was wrong.

If forgoing all the foods I once loved to eat; if the hours clocked walking, swimming, and biking isn't doing it for me anymore, what will?

If forgoing all the foods I once loved to eat; if the hours clocked walking, swimming, and biking isn't doing it for me anymore, what will?

I have dyspraxia, which means that I’m terribly clumsy. Where other people fetch a glass without even paying the action any notice, I have to think consciously about stretching my arm; about calculating the force with which my fingers will encompass the object, or about the way I’ll have to hold it in order not to drop it. Everyone does it, of course. But not everyone does it consciously, the way I do.

“It’s about uplifting and empowering women to feel like they can be confident and do anything. Not just dance.”