Bailey Gaddis: Celebrating the Honest Postpartum Body

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I don’t mind this new body — it birthed my child and I will forever be in its debt — but I want to figure out how to be at home in the new structure.

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SOURCE: Eating Disorders on Huffington Post – Read entire story here.

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