Lena realized to simply accept herself within the face of “getting old, sickness, scrapes and scars” and her decadelong battle with endometriosis. “This physique had already been an object of scorn and so the remainder of the street smoothed out earlier than me,” she mentioned.
“I now not believed that being thinner, taller, or tanner would save me. No hair masks or management prime briefs had been coming to struggle on my behalf. I used to be alerted to the truth that the one protect now we have is our voice, our artwork, our goals, {our relationships}.”