I feel really positive about my stretch marks.
I used to have really bad body image for
the longest time, and I didn't even realize
that I did. And I was not fit at all, and I
didn't really work out. That was in high
school, and it wasn't really until I came here
that I realized that you can feel positively
about yourself and your body, and I
decided that I wanted to feel differently.
But related to that, I felt like the only way
that was possible was if my body changed,
and I didn't want that to be the case, but I
also felt like I would never feel differently
unless I took my body into my control and
changed things. So I try to work out a lot
and I try to be disciplined about it, and I
feel like my stretch marks represent that
change, and that mental determination that
I tried to express.