Thank you for sharing. Our columnist Holly is really kind of amazing. :)

plunksterdalektardis:

This has been my life since puberty oh my lord:

I spent my teenage years in a haze of beige and tan ugliness.

I remember the first time I truly believed my right to pretty lingerie was gone. I was with my mother in a department store dressing room, trying on a plain white blouse. It was clear I was going to be full-figured pretty early on, and my mother seemed to take this on as her personal cross to bear.

“Everything looks terrible,” she lamented loudly as I turned beet red in front of the saleslady- “Your chest is just so…inconvenient.” 

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