Pretty hurts
This Is Uncomfortable
Marketplace
4.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Society places a big premium on looking a certain way — our cleanliness, our class status, even our mental health is judged based on our appearance. Esther Calixte-Bea was taught at a young age to hide her body hair. For most of her life, she spent hundreds of dollars a month trying to keep it under control — until she finally hit a breaking point.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Do you want a superpower watching RewatchMirror's Fits? |
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| 0:09.9 | Are you thinking this is great but where can I watch Mirrors Fits? |
| 0:13.2 | Watch now on all four. |
| 0:14.7 | The purpose of the UK's biggest free streaming service? |
| 0:17.0 | Now we've told you what to do. |
| 0:18.7 | Watch and rewatch Mirrors Fits? |
| 0:20.3 | Watch and rewatch, we'll do. |
| 0:21.6 | Watch, watch and rewatch, rewatch. |
| 0:23.6 | For free. |
| 0:24.4 | Oh bugging. |
| 0:25.6 | Compare it channel 4.com-sash-verified. |
| 0:31.0 | On a cold winter afternoon, 11-year-old Esther |
| 0:34.0 | collects Bayer was out playing in the school yard with her classmates. |
| 0:37.7 | And her snow pants kept slipping. |
| 0:39.6 | She kept trying to readjust them lifting her jacket to tug them up. |
| 0:43.6 | And that's when her friends saw it, |
| 0:45.5 | all the hair on her stomach. |
| 0:47.5 | They did like such a big reaction, like exaggerated reaction, |
| 0:52.1 | like a really big like, oh my gosh reaction. |
| 0:55.1 | And they just all looked at me in a way and started talking to each other. |
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