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“ I'd dye my eyebrows if I were you. You're completely missing the trend - it's like you're stuck in the 90s.

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“ “I'm not saying you're fat, it's just you're normally skinnier” - my sister.

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“ Let me squeeze that spot for you.

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“ My friend told me I needed to shave because I looked "scruffy". I had an interview coming up, and I was really nervous, his comments made me feel like I didn't get the job because I looked too scruffy.

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“ You have really large pores.

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“ Female former line manager, when I raised with her some clear sexism and undermining by a male subordinate: "well, you'd lost weight when he started in post so it can't have been about your weight".

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“ 60 odd year old allegedly 'Christian' woman (and my line manager at the time): "you can help us out with this but you need to stop wearing eyeliner and lipstick, it's intimidating".

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“ In the second half of my second pregnancy- "Are you SURE you're not having twins?" From lots of people. Including total strangers.

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“ When I was 12 someone asked me "are you a boy or a girl" and I think about that so much, still, it causes so much self doubt (I am 35 now).

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“ “You need to pop that huge pimple, it’s so ugly” it's a mole.

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“ You’re too tall to find a boyfriend, being a lesbian would be more useful.

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“ My friend looking at my brow said: "What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder."

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“ People keep telling me I need to use the gym because it's healthier, but I know they only say it because I'm fat.

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“ You and your partner look like you've just eloped from high school in your wedding photo.

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“ Someone once said to me I was so thin I could dodge rain.

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“ What's with the monobrow?

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“ I was recovering from sickness and my colleague at work told me, "you look miserable".

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“ You're not young enough for that hair cut.

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“ I'm surprised you're not thinner considering how well you eat.

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“ Somebody once refused to go on a date with me because I "wasn't physically attractive".

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“ Whenever people walk into my office they look at my face and ask if everything is okay..

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“ Your hair isn't straightened enough and looks like side burns.

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“ "You look like a witch when you wear that skirt." - Said by all of my co-workers when I walked into the office one morning.

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“ I am bald and for secret Santa at my work I was given an 80s George Michael style mullet wig.

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“ Maybe you should wear some makeup, you look half dead.

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“ Every time someone tells me to put my book down and go to the gym because 'it would make it easier to find a man' hurts. Like brains aren't sexy (I have been married for 5 years).

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“ Your skin is quite bad really isn't it.

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“ I got made fun of once for having hairs down below as I was wearing a body suit. I do pole dancing and people online keep telling me how gross I look.

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“ “Wow you’re so thin! Have you been doing something you shouldn’t be?” In response to my healthy recovery from stress, medication, and illness related weight gain.

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“ Don't swim too much - you'll get broad shoulders and that's not good for girls.

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“ People constantly say to my baby niece "you're such a pretty girl", "you're so beautiful". While this is 'positive' it's also very one dimensional and it's still lookism. I worry it will constrain her thoughts or ambitions if it continues while she is growing up because she can be so much more than her looks.

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“ "I'm not the hot one in my family either." - An unprompted response to my boyfriend meeting my siblings.

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“ Your feet are too big to wear flat shoes, your legs look like golf clubs. Try a heel.

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“ You're losing too much weight, it's starting to really age you.

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“ I'm loving the beard, hides your double chin. You almost look chiselled.

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“ That skirt really hides your fat tummy.

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“ In PE a group of boys started shouting 'spotty ****’ at me from across the class. The teacher overheard and said nothing.

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“ I went out of physics today and when I came back in and walked past a group of boys to go sit back down I heard one of them say 'scruff' and another say 'pizza face'. They always make comments about my acne and it hurts.

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“ Think about how pretty you’d look without that thing (a headscarf) on your head.

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“ I was a waitress for a while and we were made to wear tight dresses with short sleeves. One time my boss told me to suck my stomach in and stand straight. Another time a young girl with a family I was serving pointed at my arms and remarked loudly that they were hairy (I have quite hairy arms). Her mother didn’t say anything.

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“ You have frog eyes.

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“ "Your armpits are so hairy, not even men are like this anymore, shave it all off." - my boss.

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“ My family once didn't let me go out with them in shorts because my legs were "too hairy".

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“ I have a sister who's younger than me and I am overweight. Many times, several people have said that if I would lose some weight I would look more beautiful than her. This is not only rude towards me but also towards my sister. We know that both of us are beautiful the way we are.

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“ You would look better without glasses. You should get a laser eye surgery. Think about it!

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“ “You're so lucky to have me now. No one else would ever want you.” My ex-husband remarking on my stretch marks. I was 18. It destroyed my self confidence forever.

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“ “You're too old to have 'little girl hair’. Once you're 30 long hair looks silly and unprofessional.” - My Mum.

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“ “You miss a lot of time at work because you're unwell but you always looks fine and you feel good enough to put make-up on. I don't blame you, I'd milk it too.” A colleague during a Fibromyalgia flare.

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“ “I couldn't listen to her because her eyebrows were too distracting.” A colleague said this about another person in our organisation.

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“ At a family party this past weekend an Aunt told me that if my mum and I worked together we’d both be able to support each other to lose enough weight to be healthy. I’m 12.5 stone.

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“ No wonder your husband left you, you just let yourself go as soon as you got married.

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“ I'm overweight, curvy and finally feel happy in my own skin after years of bullying but my family constantly tell me to lose weight because "no boy will marry me and I will be alone forever”.

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“ “You’d look better if you lost a bit of weight.” - My now ex boyfriend.

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“ “One side of your face is prettier than the other.” Said by a photographer I was working with - I hadn't asked for them to analyse my appearence and share it with me.

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“ Friend of my boyfriend at the time: "Damn you look ROUGH!" Me: "No, I'm just not wearing make up."

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“ My brothers girlfriend said "you look so beautiful with makeup on".

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“ A random bloke grabbed my boob on the street when he was walking by and yelled "you got nothing there, do ya?" and laughed. I was battling anorexia and depression and almost killed myself after that.

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“ "I can't believe grandma spoilt you so much! You are so fat! You need to loose weight right now!" said my mom as she put me on a diet when I was 6 years old. I battle food addiction to this day - I am 36.

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“ "You have to work out and watch your diet. Most girls put on 10kg when they turn 20. Look at your mom or grandmother, you don't want flobby arms like that, like fat wings" said by my PE teacher to an all girl class when I was 13.

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“ "You should wear makeup" - said by my mom.

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