Ashley Graham was asked about confidence and responded: “There are some days I feel fat. I’m not convinced there’s going to be a moment where every woman in the world wakes up and feels like a million dollars. So, what I want to do is give women the tools that will help when those moments come up. Sometimes it can be as easy as telling yourself that you are beautiful.”
I don’t even know where to start with this mess. Let’s start with making it clear why this is a mess.
In Graham’s quote, she is suggesting that being fat is a feeling, that being fat is what happens when you wake up and don’t feel like a million dollars.
That being fat is something that comes and goes in “moments” that are to be dealt with using “tools” like telling yourself that you are beautiful.
Except that this is total crap.
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