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COURTNEY, 24, GRIMSBY

@bodypositivebelle

"I've been big from a young age.

When I was 10, I was diagnosed with an underactive thyroid, so each year I've put on more weight. I was always really active, so it was strange. New lumps and bumps formed that I didn't know what to do with.

I was bullied a lot throughout my school years, and I hated my body - absolutely hated it. It really affected my mental health.

When I was in college, I went on a big, long-term diet and lost five stone. I was a lot slimmer - though I was still big - but I realised I wasn't a better person, I wasn't suddenly beautiful, I wasn't suddenly amazing. I was still the same person, but a lot less happy.

Then I discovered Instagram.

I remember seeing the first girl that used a body positive hashtag and I thought she looked amazing

But one night someone commented on all of my pictures saying that I was fat and looked like someone from Star Wars.

I messaged her and asked her why she was doing it. Why she found it fun to hurt someone like that. She replied, and later admitted that she had hang-ups about her own body. She said she felt fat.

It made me think that often people are just pushing their own insecurities out. Someone will look at me and think: 'I don't want to be that size, I wouldn't be happy that size, so why should you be happy when you're fat?'

It makes me sad to think about people who are struggling so much that they think the only way to make themselves feel better is to put someone down. That's not the way. You can't be comparing yourself to other people.

I know it's not easy, but the sooner you start to see yourself, how great you are, the better. You won't need to judge someone by their looks."

KATIE, 34, LONDON

@fat.girl.eats
"I have been waiting to be thin most of my life - to lose weight. I've put a lot of things on hold.

When I was a kid growing up in Poland, I was quite sickly with upper throat infections and had to go to places we called sanatoriums to get better. Every time I went to one, they would put me on a low-calorie diet.

They were always saying that I had to lose weight. Nowadays, when I look at photos from childhood, I don't see anything wrong. I wasn't skinny, but I wasn't fat.

But I was made to feel that there was something wrong.

A few years ago, I started feeling a growing sense of anger.

I was consuming a lot of feminist blogs and podcasts, and they talked about body positivity and self-love. I got to the point where I thought, 'There's nothing wrong with the way I look, there's nothing wrong with the way anyone looks. I'm just going to live my life.'

I stopped waiting to buy nice clothes, I just bought the clothes that fitted me. I started going on holiday. I started wearing a swimsuit and going swimming, which I always used to love when I was a kid.

Now my attitude is:
'Don't like what you see? Look somewhere else!'

I'm no longer trying to change myself to fit society. I'm trying to change society so it can fit me.

Body positivity is not just for fat people or skinny people, it's for everyone.

Body positivity is the freedom that comes with being able to be happy with yourself. It gives you so much time to do other things, to travel, to think, to write, to make friends without having to worry about how you look all the time.

Everyone could use a bit of body positivity in their life."

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COURTNEY, 24, GRIMSBY @bodypositivebelle "I've been big from a young age. When I was 10, I was diagnosed with an underactive thyroid, so each year I've put on more weight. I was always really active, so it was strange. New lumps and bumps formed that I didn't know what to do with.

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