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Could you tread water in the open ocean for 29 hours? Have you ever stopped to marvel at how amazing organ donation is? Could you stand up on stage and use your body as your vehicle for storytelling - letting it all hang out? In this episode Robyn talks to some real-life superheroes who will make you see your body and what it can do in a whole new light.

This is the childbirth and pregnancy episode...but not your average childbirth and pregnancy stories. Robyn is so sick and tired of the pressure the media and fashion industry put on women to lose their 'baby bodies' - so she’s off to talk to women whose birth stories are so powerful and inspiring as to leave your jaw on the floor in awe of the human body...and not giving a hoot about how much weight was gained or lost.

In this episode Robyn talks about the 'S' word: Shame. She hears from people - like assault survivor Carmen Greentree and 'Wild' author Cheryl Strayed - who have made it out of Shame alive.

Before we can go any further in a conversation around body inclusivity - Robyn needs to explore issues of race, gender, disability and culture. We hear from people on the front-lines like African American Intersex activist, Saifa Wall, Indigeneous model Sam Harris, Jameela Jamil, Dascha Polanco, Ryan O’Connell and so many more.

Robyn is wrestling with being a part of an industry that marginalizes so many bodies. She wants to hear from people who were born into bodies outside the mainstream...and who wouldn’t have it any other way. She talks to Harnaam Kaur - the bearded dame, Kobie Donovan - a paralympian with Dwarfism, Ellie Goldstein - fashion model with Down's Syndrome and more.

Robyn kicks off the series on the topic closest to the surface for her: Scars. Robyn talks with people who have undergone extreme injury leaving them forever changed & scarred - like burn survivor Turia Pitt - and how they came to embrace and accept their scars and everything that comes with them.

When she suffered a seizure that saw her hospitalised with a cracked skull and facial injuries, Robyn Lawley started to reassess her future. Australia’s leading plus-size model had always called out body-diversity blind spots, but now wondered whether she could continue working in an industry with such a rigid view of beauty.

In the final episode of the Series - Robyn has found the answers to the questions she began with: Can she continue to work in the fashion industry? What lies beyond #bodypositivty and is a more inclusive framework to champion? But, she realises there’s one last blind spot to shine a light on, something that is inescapable and unites all of us: ageing. She talks to fashion icon Paulina Porizkova and Publishing Maverick Mia Freedman and more.