We've grown up surrounded by beauty ideals that promised confidence, but often delivered shame.

In a special episode of a millennial mind, I sat down with Nicola Adams to explore how appearance-based

compliments and body talk shape our self-worth without us realising it. In partnership with the

Dove Self-Esteen project, we unpack the tools to change the conversation for ourselves

and for future generations. Listen now and download the free body confidence journal at Dove.com

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Dude, dude, behind the foods.

Behind the foods.

Yeah, is the nude behind the food?

It's actually really fucking good.

Okay.

Oh my god. Oh, my God. Oh, Lord.

Oh, my God.

Mm-hmm.

That was very good.

That was very good.

Thank you.

I felt like I was, I don't know, in a soulful church and I was a part of the choir, but they had me in the back because I wasn't good enough. That little run is... That's actually very true. No, you know you got solos in church, dog. You ever did the choir shit? I did, but I didn't get a solo because I was too scared. Aw. And then, so the funny thing in high school. So I joined choir the last, like, semester. Just because at that point in my life, I was like, you know what? I don't give a fuck. I'm going to do whatever I want. Yeah, fuck this guy. I don't you fuck. I'm going to join this fucking choir. That's not what I meant.

Yeah, because you don't kind of want to get made fun of as a guy that sings or whatever whatnot, right? You know, especially you go to a school where there's a bunch of thuggery going around. You become the singer guy, people got something to say. But when you're in my junior of high school and my senior of high school, I didn't give him a fuck anymore.

I was like,

who the fuck cares?

I'm leaving all you losers in the desk.

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