The plus-size Asian women behind that viral photo have a powerful message for us all
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- Michelle Elman
Michelle Elman is a five-board accredited body confidence coach and an award-winning body positive activist. Best known for her campaign @ScarredNotScared, she has over 190k followers across Instagram accounts and released her debut memoir "Am I Ugly?" in 2018.
“I learned there was something wrong with my body and the size of it,” explains the model. “I didn’t like it and wanted to change it”.
“I used to be hugely insecure about being pale,” says the Girls Aloud star.
“Everything tells us that the main goal of fitness is to lose weight. It doesn’t tell you anything about ability or strength.”
“We need to stop feeling like we have an obligation to find bits about our bodies that we dislike”