This not-thin woman is thriving! Can you believe it?! Yes, it is important to see someone like Barbie. To have her body pointed out and celebrated.
To message to other women—especially women who, like me, look more like Barbie than not—that, Oh, shit, yeah, you can thrive too.
Just watching Barbie exist does something (not everything but something) to counteract the years of hiding your upper arms, of spending your allowance on diet pills, of standing in the background of group pics doing that thing where you stick out your head like E.T.
so that, if you’re lucky, you’ll look just a little bit smaller.Barbie gets this too. She knows that her body’s mere existence in Hollywood is a balm.
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