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Last week, a blindfolded young woman named Jae West, survivor of an eating disorder, stripped down to her underwear at a busy intersection in London's Piccadilly Circus, holding a placard which read:
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'60% of adults report feeling ashamed of the way they look' - Centre for Appearance Research 2012.
The statistic above is appalling but not surprising, considering we are bombarded every day with advertisements selling a particular type of body, appearance and personality we must fit into. As actresses like Kristen Stewart slam the unreal standards of beauty they are held up to, what hope is there for the rest of us? Little wonder then, that so many of us are racked by self-doubt, besieged by body acceptance issues.
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Let us then leave having watched this video, a little wiser and perhaps more confident. Here's to celebrating ourselves and our bodies because, as they say, age and weight are just numbers and none of us need to do the math, do we now?
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