Loving Your Body: Taryn Brumfitt and The Body Image Movement

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5. I did and I loved it

I had a patient once, who struck me with her beauty, she had had a mastectomy-- a procedure the surgeons almost wouldn't do because of her weight.

But this is what I noticed; ever body part tapered down to the next, her upper arms to her lower, her wrists and hands, she was what people would call "morbidly obese" yet, she had a distinct waist, and wonderful wide hips, again tapered thighs to knees to ankles to feet. Almost perfect proportion.

About her breast she said "it fed four kids, entertained my husband for thirty years--it's done it's job and it deserved to retire"

I always wondered if she knew how beautiful she was, not by societies boring standards, but actual aesthetics, shape and rhythm and form. She appeared very grounded and happy, so I suspect, at the least, she was well loved.