‘Mosquito Bites’ - what an odd title for an article must be your thought! These ‘Mosquito Bites’ defined me for a long time and today I am going to unravel the truth of how we women have been accepting many snide, body-shaming remarks made by the people in our society. I will share with you a story from my own life of how I became a victim of this cruel comment made by a so-called ‘well-wisher’. As a child, I was quite thin and as I reached my adolescence, I continued to be skin and bones. A girl’s assets, once she attains puberty, naturally begin to develop but in my case, neither did my breasts fully develop, nor did my body fill out. Everyone in my family thought it was my metabolism due to which I had a thin body and that I’d eventually fill out when the time was right. Although I had these reassurances from all the Auntys and Uncles, somewhere deep in my subconscious mind, I started to feel inferior about my body. To top it all off, I started to develop chronic acne, causing
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