Cassie

Fat Girls Shouldn't Wear Stripes: Cassie AceSeeing as it is Aussie Curves Swimwear week, I thought I should share pictures of another hot curvy babe in her bathing suit! I absolutely love the style of this two piece on Cassie, that cropped top is super cute.

Fat Girls Shouldn't Wear Stripes: Cassie AceWeight, body size and fatness has always been a hot topic for me. Growing up with a mother who never felt worthy of self-love because of her size was something I have witnessed from a young age. Diet after diet, weight loss and weight gain, anguish and pressure all things I learnt to relate to fatness. I grew up fat and I learnt to hate my body.

Fat Girls Shouldn't Wear Stripes: Cassie AceI remember at primary school been teased about my butt size and belly rolls, being over-sexualised by peers in Intermediate because of my early curves, in high school I was just plain bullied. “Careful, don’t break the curb,” boys screeched at me as I walked past. Another very sad part of my experience growing up with body shaming was seeing my friends, the beautiful and intelligent women I so admired in my adolescence, heavily experiment with bulimia, a cluster fuck of group binging, purging and self hatred all brought to a head buy the intense desire to have the “ideal” body. Being fat in this world was something I had learnt to equate with failure and ugliness, and I felt like an ugly failure. If I could go back and tell young me that the answer to all this was loving the body I have she would have screamed at me, “Impossible!”

Fat Girls Shouldn't Wear Stripes: Cassie AceCassie’s story is all too familiar to me, and I’m sure to many of you.  Women everywhere are taught to hate their bodies from a young age, and this has to stop. Think about what kind of messages you’re sending to the young women around you – when you proclaim your body to be not good enough, you’re instilling that message in them too!

x Meagan

Cassie wears:
Woah Dude 2.0 Nana Suit Top by Black Milk
Woah Dude 2.0 Nana Suit Bottoms by Black Milk
Earrings and glasses from Diva

Fat Girls Shouldn't Wear Stripes: Cassie Ace

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3 Comments

  1. November 13, 2013 / 10:50 am

    These are so awesome. Your words are so powerful Cassie, and you are so relatable to so many women. I think you need your own blog too! You and Meagan make the perfect team x

  2. amber
    November 13, 2013 / 1:57 am

    What a cutie! Best swimsuit out!

  3. November 12, 2013 / 9:28 pm

    Love the “nana suit” – too cute!
    What she says about hatred of our bodies being instilled at a young age is sadly so true, it’s so important to place value on the non physical attributes in young women

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