Sewing Your Own Clothes When You’re Not Happy With Your Body

Confronting all your insecurities on a measuring tape.

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I’ve never been thin. At least, not since puberty struck. I gained a lot of weight overnight and it took years for it to arrange itself into womanly curves rather than doughy lumps. I was raised by a single mother who was addicted to yo-yo dieting and prepackaged foods…