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Mari Llewellyn

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Pursuit of Wellness
Pregnancy Update: IVF Reflections, Ultrasounds & Travel

And if you're tall listening, growing up, I had a lot of insecurity around being tall, like always one of the tallest in my class in elementary school, middle school, high school.

Pursuit of Wellness
Pregnancy Update: IVF Reflections, Ultrasounds & Travel

And even though I was like a very slim athletic kid, being tall as a female was

Pursuit of Wellness
Pregnancy Update: IVF Reflections, Ultrasounds & Travel

it gives you like this level of like body dysmorphia, delusional like thinking, because you're always heavier than your friends.

Pursuit of Wellness
Pregnancy Update: IVF Reflections, Ultrasounds & Travel

You're always like bigger, like these words get thrown around.

Pursuit of Wellness
Pregnancy Update: IVF Reflections, Ultrasounds & Travel

And it created like a very big insecurity for me for a long time.

Pursuit of Wellness
Pregnancy Update: IVF Reflections, Ultrasounds & Travel

And I think a lot of girls go through this.

Pursuit of Wellness
Pregnancy Update: IVF Reflections, Ultrasounds & Travel

And I didn't even realize, I felt like I was isolated in my experience.

Pursuit of Wellness
Pregnancy Update: IVF Reflections, Ultrasounds & Travel

Like I'm always so much heavier than everyone else.

Pursuit of Wellness
Pregnancy Update: IVF Reflections, Ultrasounds & Travel

Of course, because you have so much more length going on.

Pursuit of Wellness
Pregnancy Update: IVF Reflections, Ultrasounds & Travel

You know, I'm like 5'10", 5'11".

Pursuit of Wellness
Pregnancy Update: IVF Reflections, Ultrasounds & Travel

And this trend is going around of like gorgeous tall girls posting their like measurements, like their height, their weight, their shoe size, their clothing size.

Pursuit of Wellness
Pregnancy Update: IVF Reflections, Ultrasounds & Travel

Oh, that was the other thing.

Pursuit of Wellness
Pregnancy Update: IVF Reflections, Ultrasounds & Travel

My clothing size was always a lot bigger than other people's because I'm like tall.

Pursuit of Wellness
Pregnancy Update: IVF Reflections, Ultrasounds & Travel

I have a lot going on.

Pursuit of Wellness
Pregnancy Update: IVF Reflections, Ultrasounds & Travel

So I was always like a medium, sometimes a large, like always over a hundred.

Pursuit of Wellness
Pregnancy Update: IVF Reflections, Ultrasounds & Travel

You know, my weight has changed a lot over the years.

Pursuit of Wellness
Pregnancy Update: IVF Reflections, Ultrasounds & Travel

Like at my heaviest, I was like 245 pounds, but I've always been like over 150 pounds as an adult.

Pursuit of Wellness
Pregnancy Update: IVF Reflections, Ultrasounds & Travel

And like, just, you know, that's when you're around girls who are like 110, 120, you're like, am I obese?

Pursuit of Wellness
Pregnancy Update: IVF Reflections, Ultrasounds & Travel

Like what's going on?

Pursuit of Wellness
Pregnancy Update: IVF Reflections, Ultrasounds & Travel

And this trend has been so healing for me and so many other girls.