'Your bump is so tiny!' 'You look amazing — I can't believe how small you still are!'
Deena Margolin, one of the founders of, who happens to be expecting her second child, has been regularly told versions of these sentiments throughout her pregnancy.
"I was terrified of my body getting bigger because that little voice society has programmed me with was whispering, 'You're becoming less beautiful now.'" "I rationalized my over-exercising as 'marathon training' — a casual 20-mile run so I'd be 'allowed' to eat," she recalled."And you know what? My tiniest days — where I was the 'thinnest' and 'most beautiful' and was constantly complimented for being 'tiny' — those were the saddest, loneliest, most pain-filled days of my life."
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