She also reminds us that admiring someone and comparing yourself to them are two very different things.
As a society, it feels like we've always been led to believe that there's a 'one size fits all' attitude to beauty which discriminates against anyone who might be outside the 'ideal' dimensions. Of course it's important to be healthy, but it's only that that should be important: not somebody's waist size.
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