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On this special episode of The Skinny, Jessie Kahnweiler talks to women about their bodies. This creates an open discussion about the expectations that women feel burdened by in terms of their self image. Watch this episode to see what the ladies have to say!

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Transcript
00:00We're gonna play a game called Word Association.
00:05So, beach.
00:07Sun.
00:08Food.
00:09Microni and cheese.
00:10Mom.
00:11Love.
00:12Body.
00:13Um.
00:14Clothes?
00:16I don't know.
00:17Um, health.
00:19Me.
00:19Body.
00:20Difficult.
00:21Complex.
00:23A thing.
00:24Working on it.
00:25Confusing.
00:26Scary.
00:27Ugh.
00:27Can you talk to me a little bit about your relationship with your body?
00:32I don't ever see my body as, like, a thing that I just own and I'm happy with.
00:36It's like a DIY project all the time.
00:39I think some days I wake up and I feel super beautiful and I'm, like, posing naked in front of
00:44my mirror.
00:44And then some days I wake up and I just feel disgusting.
00:47I used to do, like, really awful, like, diets where I, or just, like, things where I would just, like,
00:53stop eating.
00:53Where I would kind of do, like, one meal a day thing.
00:55You think that's the answer to your problems, but of course it's not.
00:58I eat so unhealthily sometimes that I notice that other times I just will, like, not eat bread for, like,
01:06a week.
01:06And I'll run every day that week.
01:08Then I break and I fucking order a pizza and I eat the entire pizza and then lie to my
01:12boyfriend that I didn't have dinner yet so let's go get fried chicken.
01:15And it's like, that doesn't feel good.
01:16I might not look different physically, but it just feels like I failed myself.
01:21It's stressful.
01:22Like, at camp, I was 12 then and I was, like, worried about how I looked in a bikini.
01:28What is it about being thin?
01:30Why is this still a problem?
01:32We all have issues with our bodies.
01:34If we just talked about it more, it wouldn't be such a huge deal, I don't think.
01:37I think we need to get a little more angry than we are.
01:40We were looped into this by advertisements, by parents who said, maybe you don't want a second helping.
01:46I don't know, it's just nice to be able to, like, actually talk to people in a real way because
01:50I would look at you and be like,
01:52Bitch has it under control.
01:54You know what I mean?
01:55Like, you obviously have a lot of pain, too, as we all do.
01:59Can you give yourself, like, the 13-year-old you or any of the young girls that you see, like,
02:05do you have advice for them?
02:08Own it because, like, you're you and that's, like, very important.
02:12You're so cute, you know?
02:13It was fine.
02:14You looked fine.
02:15I think that even, I would want to tell my high school self that and my college self that and,
02:18like, myself yesterday that.
02:20I could take up space in the world and I could be this 13-year-old little person but take
02:24up all space in a room and not just be shoved in, like, a corner.
02:28That kid body feeling was so cool.
02:33That idea of thinking of your body as just a vehicle to do fun things.
02:38Who is your favorite character on TV right now?
02:42I haven't written it yet.
02:44I want to see more characters that just, like, show people mess up.
02:48I want to see women being less perfect.
02:51I'm doing the show and I'm really, really nervous.
02:53Yeah, of course you are.
02:55But you better watch it, Grandma.
02:56Oh, absolutely.
02:58Oh, my God.
02:59Do I need another bitch sitting over there?
03:02There's, like, 500 of you.
03:04I'm out.
03:05I'm out.
03:05I'm out.
03:05I'm out.
03:05I'm out.
03:06I'm out.
03:06I'm out.
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