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Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. I'm your hostess,

Trine Hermosta, Sarah Nicole, and each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed

in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that. So get ready to get inspired,

get candid, get real because we are all in this digital space together.

I am so excited to welcome today's guest, Alex Light to the show. You may recognize her from

the Graham Alex Light underscore LDN. She's very known for going viral for so many different reasons,

bringing up and building awareness around diet culture. She talks about body confidence,

she talks about how to feel better in your body, eating disorder recovery, and of course,

fashion beauty life as well. Her story is similar to mine, but intersects in very different ways,

and the way that we've healed and talk about it. And she has so much insight into the why. Why

do we think this way? Why do we feel this way? I'm excited to bring her on to have these conversations

and ultimately help us ask ourselves why Alex, welcome to the show cute little British self.

You are a newlywed you are doing so much in the world, but I mean, many of us know you or would

recognize you for some of your very viral posts. And you and I have had some pretty big conversations

about that. But kind of before we really get into like the grit of your why and what that is,

maybe let's personally take people through your story as to why you even cared in the first place

to start hosting some of these conversations because I think what's interesting is I followed

you for a while before realizing that you had a personal tie to why you were sharing diet culture

in our awareness around it. So kind of lead me through that story a little bit. Definitely. I

I always feel like I have to sort of almost like apologize when I go through the story because

it feels it's often not coherent story because a lot of it is like it feels like a big black

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