Name: Asian American Women Share Their Body Insecurities
Uploaded: 2016-04-14T10:42:46.000Z
Duration: 2 min 44 s
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don't bring snacks to work because you're gonna get

Faster than most of my Asian-American friends.

- I swam all my life, so I have big shoulders.

It was normal for my family and family friends

- They're like oh, Diane, like, you got a little chubby.

Or like, they'd just say those small things

- My thighs are bigger, my arms are bigger,

- In the later part of my childhood I was told

because I used to be so skinny when I was a kid.

Every time I look into the mirror I see something different

- Size-wise, and culturally, I was just, like,

is that we need to be thin and that means not muscular.

- Going to Japan, especially, I get looks

that I'm not quite Japanese because I don't have

the nice, fair skin, I don't have a tiny, like, petite body.

and I just think that I was almost out of here

without her saying one comment about my weight

- It's funny, because my mom will be like

It's like, I just like, everything came with a but

- When I was living in Korea the pressures to look

a certain way came from every aspect of my life,

from my friends, to my family, to my relatives.

so you could be like this cookie cutter like,

shape and figure, and things that they find perfect.

It's just like this vicious cycle (laughs cynically)

of like, trying to get to a point where I'm happy

- I will work on my body however I please.

Being different is being you, and being you,

I can enjoy my life without looking perfect.

- For all you Asian girls who have big boobs