Stop Letting Your Body Get in Your Way

Odessa Denby
6 min readNov 17, 2022

Why is it that we don’t think we can live our dream life until we have our dream physique?

Photo by Hannah Xu on Unsplash

“I was considered fat in South Korea!” a slim young Korean woman relates in a TikTok.

Her point was, no doubt, that beauty standards in Korea (particularly for entertainers) is very extreme. And she’s right. Diet culture in Korea (and other countries) often puts thinness above…

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Odessa Denby

Professional writer and editor, former expat. Conscientious lifestyle and relationships, mental health, and the arts.