How to Feel Normal When the World Says You’re Too Big

There are concrete ways to help your brain normalize your body (and pretty much everyone else’s)

Virgie Tovar
Forge
Published in
4 min readJul 26, 2019

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I’I’ve been told to avoid association with other fat people my whole life, out of fear, I guess, that the proximity might draw (extra) attention to the terrible fact of my size.

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Virgie Tovar
Forge
Writer for

Virgie Tovar is an author, activist and one of the nation’s leading experts and lecturers on weight-based discrimination and body image.