⚠️ Trigger Warning: This episode includes honest discussion around body image, disordered eating, fitness obsession, cosmetic surgery, postpartum recovery, and body shame. If these themes feel heavy right now, feel free to pause and come back when you’re ready. You’ll be met with love, not pressure.

This one’s for anyone who’s ever stood in front of a mirror and flinched. For the girls who never posted the picture. For the women trying to “fix” their bodies while quietly falling apart inside.

In this episode, Anne-Tso gets painfully real about:

• growing up during the Tumblr “thinspo” era and the lasting damage it did
• how control, not hunger, shaped her early relationship with food
• the cultural contradictions of beauty standards—from BBLs to church shame
• why “wellness” isn’t always healing when it’s rooted in fear
• the pressure of postpartum “snapbacks” and soft-body shame
• and how black women are forced to navigate beauty ideals that were never designed for them

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