Makes Me Think - Today, for the first time I was called "fat." I've always been a bigger girl, but not overweight for my frame. But today at my swim coaching job, a thin mother came up to me and told me I couldn't coach her 6 year old daughter because, in her words, "whatever workouts you're doing obviously don't work, and I don't want my daughter to be fat." Society's flawed image of beauty and the effects on such young children and their parents MMT.

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