Hi Besties! Welcome back to Try Not To Care. It's your girl Ashley. Before we get into

today's episode, I do want to issue a trigger warning. It's going to be a much heavier

topic than most of my episodes are. I am going to be talking about body image, eating disorders,

my experience. I'm going to try my best to leave out any specific weight or numbers just

because I know that could be triggering. The point of this episode is to open a discussion

and hopefully help anyone listening. But I know it's a sensitive subject. So if you don't

think you can handle this episode, I encourage you to skip it and listen to one of my others.

I have a really good episode on self-love, on manifestation. But this is a safe space. And although

this topic is heavy, I do have a large female audience. I can proudly say on Instagram, TikTok,

and the podcast, like 90% of my following is people who identify as female. And I fucking love

that. Just because I grew up with Instagram and only having male followers, which I hated. So I

am proud to have so many strong badass bitches following me. But with having so many females following

me, especially young females, I think it's important to have a discussion about body image. So that's

going to be today's episode. So let's get into it. Negative body image is something that so many

people struggle with, some more than others. And it genuinely does not matter what size you are

or what you look like. You could be a 10 in everyone's eyes. You could be the most beautiful

person in the world. But you can still be so uncomfortable with the body that you're in. Just like

everything else society has conditioned us to believe that there is this one correct beauty

standard. And if you do not meet those beauty standards, there is something wrong with you that

you need to fix. So many of us have grown up being criticized by our families, friends, peers,

for our parents. We've been bullied and we've been rejected for not living up to this expectation

of what we should look like or what we should weigh. It's even more prevalent now with how big the

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