My mom was enjoying watching us play pretend in the clothes she didn’t wear anymore. I reached for a pair of her pleated pants and she quickly scolded me, “You can’t wear those pants, you should never be able to wear my size pants, that would be bad.”

She actually told me that being able to ever fit in pants her size would be BAD. That is my first memory of being told that bodies can be “bad.” I was probably 6 years old.