Taryn Brumfitt — the girl who broke social media's standards
Fierce Girls
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4.4 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Scrolling on social media might make you feel like you need to have the perfect body, and Taryn Brumfitt was sick of the pressure! After becoming a champion bodybuilder didn't make her love her body, she decided to change the conversation about body image online and help every person to embrace every body at every size.
Written and narrated by 13-year-old Josie Dicker.
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| 0:00.0 | ABC Listen. |
| 0:02.0 | Yes. |
| 0:05.0 | Girl Power. |
| 0:06.0 | This is the story of the girl who broke social media standard. |
| 0:12.0 | Tower and Brumford. |
| 0:14.0 | Written and read by me, 13 year old Josie Dicker. |
| 0:17.0 | Tawin Brumford sits in her backyard watching a precious little daughter |
| 0:25.8 | Michaela running around. She watches Michaela moving, not worrying about what she |
| 0:31.3 | looks like, whether she was the right shape. |
| 0:34.0 | As she slips her cup of tea, |
| 0:36.0 | Taran can't remember the last time she'd been happy with her body, |
| 0:39.0 | grateful for the things it can do. |
| 0:41.0 | Instead, she'd spend a lot of time upset about the way it looks. |
| 0:45.0 | A few days before, she'd actually booked in a surgery that would change her |
| 0:50.8 | current post-pregnancy body. |
| 0:52.8 | But how would she honestly tell her daughter that she should love her body |
| 0:56.8 | if she'd had surgery to change her own? |
| 0:58.8 | What will my daughter do if she doesn't like her body? |
| 1:02.1 | She thought, what am I showing her? So, no surgery. |
| 1:07.2 | Tara decides that she will instead get really fit and lose her baby weight that way because even though she cancels the |
| 1:15.0 | surgery she hasn't suddenly accepted her body she still isn't happy with it. |
| 1:19.3 | Getting really fit and thin will mean she can have the body she want without having a lie to her daughter. |
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