Own Your Body: Breaking Barriers, Redefining Beauty

By Linh Nguyễn – Fashionista & Advocate for Body Confidence 💫 Introduction: Beauty Isn’t a Size, Shade, or Shape Let me say this loud and clear: your body is not a problem to be fixed. It’s a story. A journey. A canvas of power, softness, curves, and edges — all uniquely yours. Yet for too long, the fashion world told us otherwise. It praised narrow ideals, boxed us into binary labels, and made millions of women — including myself — feel “less than.” But we’re not doing that anymore. 🧱 The Barriers We Were Told to Accept Growing up, I was taught that: Stretch marks are “flaws.” Darker skin needs to be “lightened.” Only hourglass bodies wear lingerie “properly.” And worst of all — that you should shrink, hide, or “fix” yourself to fit in. But guess what? The real shift happened when I stopped trying to fit in and started fitting myself. ✊ The Power of Undergarments in Self-Liberation It might sound small, but the moment I wore underwear that fit my body and my tone — some...