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When Your Body Doesn't Match the Template for Womanhood

My breasts are so small I've never filled out a bra properly and I feel like I failed at the most basic requirement of being a woman.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Physical deviation from idealized feminine forms creates deep shame about failing to embody womanhood 'correctly.'

Ideas that help explain it
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