This Is Why Body Positivity Is A SCAM!!!
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Summary
In this episode of Body Positivity, we are joined by body positivity activist and documentary maker, Alicia, who talks about her journey from being overweight to being body positive, her experience with liposuction, and her journey to becoming a better version of herself.
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people try to like shit on me right now because i got liposuction right because i was just in
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such a bad place you know why because i was reading youtube comments everybody's just telling
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me this was in like 2021 march i got it but i also was fully transparent about it and i made
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a full documentary good about it in tokyo and but at the time it was so crazy because i was so
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like just constantly being slammed because i wasn't like huge i just had like a little in
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the in my midsection and then i was just like a man possessed and then i just like yeah let's do
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it let's do it pay pay pay pay whatever and the next thing you know i'm laying on the fucking
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charger table like oh fuck like this is gonna be crazy and then i woke up and i was just like oh
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my god i can't believe i went through with that but that you know the same for myself but and it's
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you know it's so crazy too given them because like i said i'm not i'm not hiding it i don't care i i
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tell everybody you know what put it on my tombstone like put it right there here here lies mld you got
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liposuction what an asshole you know um i'm happy when i did it and then i learned a lot of lessons
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along the way so but even though now i get shamed why for being a man that got liposuction right but
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i don't care because you get called lazy though that you were lazy oh you know everything this guy
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doesn't this guy has no discipline this guy this this guy that i'm like have you seen the
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business empire that i run like i didn't run that being lazy but all that aside yeah i would rather
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personally i would rather be shamed for getting liposuction than being shamed for being overweight
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and at this point in my life if they because it did people are going to criticize you no matter what
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and i did use it because you know i wanted to create this documentary and i wanted the fat cells
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out of my body and so um i'm still i'm even here on the uk on my trip i'm still exercising i still
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eat clean yeah and i understand to uh is it alicia alicia alicia alicia i'm so sorry i'm okay
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alicia as alicia alluded to earlier alicia was correct when she said the symptom is something
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going on inside you and then pam pam as well said that what was going on inside of you is there is
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some there's some trauma there's some things so i think what pearl said is absolutely correct we can't
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glorify this because at the end of the day what we're doing is we're glorifying poor mental health
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yes because it's we can't be glorifying that kind of stuff because and you're literally sending
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people off to an early grave i'm a big fan of being alive
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you know and it's so it's interesting too that you guys like weren't hand selected for this body
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positivity thing but i know i had no idea yeah that's like the universe is coming together that's
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pretty cool the the thing is there's a perception um when it comes to people that choose to have
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elective surgery and that is what i try in my day-to-day life try to allow people to see that
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it's not about just wanting to have surgery to get rid but some people are not best gym candidates i
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wasn't i mean i i'd spent thousands of pounds on on personal trainers on diet plans um i was doing all
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sorts however what happens is yes you might lose the weight the weight will go down in my case i i had a
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hernia i'd had three c-sections um my stomach was protruding that's the the the recti muscle in
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the middle was had opened i needed to have muscle repair and that cannot be fixed in the gym right so
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when i was losing the weight in fact i actually looked better when i was bigger because i could
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hold my own when i lost the weight everything dropped and went down south and it looked worse
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yeah to be fair um so when i saw that happened after i lost all the weight well what do i do now
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because the gym is not going to help this yeah i need to have a tummy tuck yeah i need to have muscle
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repair so so knowing that i needed to have that done there is there is a you know a number of people
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out there why don't you go to the gym well i did yeah for many years and my biggest thing is too if
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we're supposed to like enthusiastically support people chopping off their wieners and becoming
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women like you gotta shut up about this other stuff too like guys can i say something you gotta choose
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someone you know you gotta choose one can i share something please can i just remind you all that
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body positivity isn't only like people with big black relationships it's about unable people as well
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and people are born deformed some people are born with disabilities and i think body positivity is
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also linked with that but the main the main marketing component of body positivity is towards
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women to say you can be obese i just don't think we should celebrate something that's a choice
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you're celebrating it when you're putting on the cover of magazines that's a reward that's like a
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positive thing when you're you're specifically giving people parts because they're plus size when
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you're specifically trying to put it out there make that the representation of in the media um um and
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and and it's interesting too because earlier you said like um that you seem to say like you couldn't
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lose the weight was that what you were saying earlier yes i couldn't but it's but it's like before we
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the podcast start you drink a coat i don't know i'm not trying to call you up but it's like no no no no
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no no don't get me wrong yeah um hello i'm on your podcast i want to have a good time you know
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i'm not at home i don't need to be drinking old healthy stuff but what i'm saying okay the reason i
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say that is just because i'll hear people say that but then i like watch what they eat and i'm like
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it doesn't seem to do you know it's just about representation it's it's basically the little things
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from like there's for example you can go to a store you can't get certain things um you can
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order something from online you can't see you can't actually because there's not the person wearing
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you can't see it what i was actually going to say something what i wanted to say is um it's actually
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just going go and take it away i think it's just the man thought just escaped that's fine i think
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it all starts as well from a young age and how you're brought up yes and the way that your parents
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feed you and what they do for you being brought up well and that's why i think it's so important to
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like get in control of your eating habits if you want to have children because it's not fair to the
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next generation to be brought up with eating habits that will give you an early grave and i even think
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about that with myself because i have like a horrible sugar addiction i literally love sugar
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it's so bad so does everybody else yeah it's addictive right but we do have like health problems
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because like a lot of people in my family eat a lot of like i forget what the early onset something i
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don't know i'm not a person but but like i think of this even for myself you know so i think it's
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like important that we don't celebrate that sort of thing yeah i agree with that because growing up
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for me i used to see my mum forever doing different diets yeah going on the cambridge diet you know
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when you just eat the shakes and you have those cardboard bars yeah do you know the kilo diet
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yeah all of this and i saw my mum do that and i remember being at school and my mum was happy to
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say i'd be like mum i want to go on a diet and she'd pack my rivita with my fruit and i was i was at
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school at year eight year nine so it's 12 13 and my mum was happy to do that whereas you know it's
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it's it's created bad habits for me and unhealthy eating habits everything in moderation